Choosing the Better Part?: Women in the Gospel of Luke

by Barbara E. Reid and Barbara E. Reid OP

Book Overview

Because the Gospel of Luke includes more stories about women than any other Gospel, many find it is the most helpful in the search for equality for women in the Church today. However, feminist interpreters have discovered that Luke's portrait of women is ambiguous at best and hazardous at worst. Choosing the Better Part? focuses on the sayings of Jesus and on the passages in the Gospel of Luke in which women figure as characters. It suggests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814654940
• ISBN13: 9780814654941
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"