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Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality and the Catholic Church
This international bestseller--condemned by New York's Cardinal O'Connor who, without reading it, likened it to "scrawling dirty words about the church on bathroom walls"--is a definitive, richly documented report on the oppression of women and sexuality in the Catholic Church.
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
October 1st 1991
by Penguin Books
(first published January 1st 1988)
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Aug 09, 2011
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All at once a history, study, philosophy and reaction, this book coherently covers a lot of ground on a very touchy subject. Ranke-Heineman goes back to the early church and the teachings of the bible, arguing how the early church which was incredibly liberal for its time (yet moreso as church doctrine evolved) started changing even back then into what was to become the catholic church's belief on women and sexuality. She studies the strong influence of gnosticism and later scholers like Thomas...more
Kirchenkritik ist ja momenten en vogue, die Austrittszahlen zumindest der katholischen Kirche steigen seit Jahren (nicht erst seit Bekanntwerden verschiedener Missbrauchsskandale), und praktizierende Christen (und damit meine ich nicht die Fraktion, die nur an Weihnachten und zu Ostern den Gottesdienst besucht) findet man immer seltener.
Uta Ranke-Heinemann schwimmt beileibe nicht nur auf dieser Zeitgeist-Welle, im Gegenteil: Sie war die weltweit erste Frau (!), die in katholischer Theologie eine...more
Uta Ranke-Heinemann schwimmt beileibe nicht nur auf dieser Zeitgeist-Welle, im Gegenteil: Sie war die weltweit erste Frau (!), die in katholischer Theologie eine...more
This book has been on our bookshelves for eons, and I finally picked it up and plowed my way through it until I began scanning sections toward the end.
It's a densely written tome--obviously very well researched and detailed. I already knew all too well that the Roman Catholic tradition is anti-sex, anti-women, and anti-contraception. Here's what I didn't know:
--Augustine (one of the fathers of the Catholic tradition of sex and woman hating) was married and also had several lovers before he beca...more
It's a densely written tome--obviously very well researched and detailed. I already knew all too well that the Roman Catholic tradition is anti-sex, anti-women, and anti-contraception. Here's what I didn't know:
--Augustine (one of the fathers of the Catholic tradition of sex and woman hating) was married and also had several lovers before he beca...more
Jul 30, 2011
CD
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Great book on the history behind the catholic church's misogyny.
A ridiculous screed.
Presents an effective refutation of the Catholic view of sex, founded in Augustinian teachings, including sex as sin, pleasure as sin and other confusing church views of sexuality.
Mar 31, 2008
S.
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I love reading the polemic, especially when I want to agree with it.
A little to text book for my taste.
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