For two thousand years the submissive figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus, has influenced the church's attitude toward women. Yet in the Gospels, Mary has a radical and challenging message for the powers that be. As a result, the study of Mary is of central importance for feminist and other liberation theologians.In 1990, Sri Lankan theologian and social activist, Tissa Balasuriya OMI, published his controversial and original Mary and Human Liberation. In January 1997 he was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church for his refusal to recant on the theological assumptions the book contains, and to sign a profession of faith delivered to him by the Committee for the Doctrine of the Faith.His excommunication has caused a storm of controversy in Christian and secular circles, mainly because of the lack of any public debate about the issues. In this book, the public debate takes place at last. Here Mary and Human Liberation is published for the first time in North America. Introduced by radical Catholic theologian Edmund Hill OP, edited by mariologist Helen Stanton, it sets out what happened, as well as the full correspondence between Balasuriya and the Vatican, some of it never published before. Tiss Balasuriya is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Order of Mary Immaculate. His is Director of the Centre for Society and Religion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where his work for poor people has achieved world recognition. He is a founding member of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians.

Mary and Human Liberation: The Story and the Text

Religion & Spirituality

Balasuriya, Tissa

Stanton, Helen

Christian Books & Bibles

Trinity Pr Intl

For Peace and For Good is the history of the influential Anglican religious order, the Community of St Francis. Written with the full co-operation of the community, it sets their story against the wider backdrop of the lives of St Clare and St Francis, and the extraordinary surge of women's vocations to the religious life during the Catholic revival in the Church of England. It explores the lives of its founding members, its growth, the various branch houses, and the work and ministries in which they engaged in response to God's call. First-hand accounts by Sisters bring to vivid life the story of a community responding with courage and imagination to the needs, opportunities and challenges of their times. Their stories provide significant insight and inspiration into what Christian discipleship might need to look like in the twenty-first century.

For Peace and For Good: A History of the Community of St Francis

Canterbury Press Norwich

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