Women and the Vatican: An Exploration of Official Documents

H. highlights the main themes of marriage, sexuality, dignity and human rights, service, and gender complementarity as they arise over the decades, while resolutely maintaining a broad vision of the emerging theology of women as a whole. A note on the different genres and rhetorical styles of a few...

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Published in:Theological Studies 2013, Vol.74 (1), p.209
Main Author: Belcher, Kimberly Hope
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Feminism
Rhetoric
Sexuality
Theology
Women
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Summary:H. highlights the main themes of marriage, sexuality, dignity and human rights, service, and gender complementarity as they arise over the decades, while resolutely maintaining a broad vision of the emerging theology of women as a whole. A note on the different genres and rhetorical styles of a few of the documents would have been equally helpful; it is difficult to determine whether the responsibility to reform the church and save humanity from destructive violence embedded in Pope Paul VI's 1965 "Address to Women" represents an exhortative rhetoric common to other special addresses or is unusual in its scope (26).
ISSN:0040-5639
2169-1304
DOI:10.1177/004056391307400119