On Being Unfinished: Collected Writings

Synopsis

Foreword / Charles E. Curran -- Introduction : Theological Writing As An Art Of Ministry -- I . History In The Making -- The Apostolate : Crisis And Coresponsibility -- Sexist Language And Symbolism : Unjust Arid Idolatrous -- Toward Renewing The Life And Culture Of Fallen Man : Gaudium Et Spes As Catalyst For Catholic Feminist Theology -- Feminist Ethics In The New Millennium : The Dream Of A Common Moral Language -- Ii : Insights From Imaginative Literature -- Mass Media And The Enlargement Of Moral Sensibility : Insights From Theology And Literary History -- Rosamond Rescued : George Eliot's Critique Of Sexism In Middlemarch -- Imaginative Literature And The Renewal Of Moral Theology -- David Henry Hwang's Golden Child And The Ambiguities Of Christian (and Post-christian) Missions -- Iii : Theological And Ethical Concerns -- Virtue, Providence, And The Endangered Self : Religious Dimensions Of The Abortion Debate -- Markers, Barriers, And Frontiers : Theology In The Borderlands -- Feminist Theology -- Theology's Prophetic Commitments : Insights From Experience -- Conscience As The Creatively Responsible Self -- Going After A Life : The Myth And Mystery Of Vocation -- Getting Ready For Voice-lessons : Toward A Catholic Feminist Ethics Of Spirituality -- Prophecy And Contemporary Consecrated Life : Raising Some Ethical Questions -- Iv : The Status Of Women -- A Conservative Case For The Ordination Of Women -- The Ambiguity Of Power -- What In God's Eye [s]he Is : Prospect For Women In Tomorrow's Church -- The Vatican, Feminism, And U.s. Women Religious -- The Gift Of Papal Silence -- V : Postlude -- On Being Unfinished : De Imperfection -- A Homily In The Context Of Anointing. Anne E. Patrick ; Susan Perry, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.