Episode 29 - Catholic Feminism: Should We? - Abigail Rine Favale
The Catholic Culture Podcast · Thomas V. Mirus, Abigail Rine Favale
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Show Notes
Today there is more pressure than ever before on both women and men to embrace feminism. In her outstanding memoir, Into the Deep, Abigail Rine Favale gives a resonant account of her journey from an evangelical childhood to a Christian feminism which inevitably gave way to the secular, postmodern variety. This ideology gradually gutted her faith—a process interrupted by childbirth and a sudden and unexpected conversion to Catholicism.
We discuss the feasibility of Catholic feminism, the danger of interpreting Scripture and doctrine through a predetermined ideological hermeneutic, facile uses of the word "equality", the totalizing nature of all ideology, the role of intuition in the spiritual life, and more.
Links
Buy Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion using discount code "DEEP" for 40% off https://wipfandstock.com/into-the-deep.html
Recent articles by Abigail Rine Favale
"Confessions of a Feminist Heretic" http://churchlife.nd.edu/2019/01/11/confessions-of-a-feminist-heretic/
"Sex and Symbol" http://churchlife.nd.edu/2018/06/19/sex-and-symbol/
"Hildegard of Bingen's Vital Contribution to the Concept of Woman" http://churchlife.nd.edu/2018/12/11/hildegard-of-bingens-vital-contribution-to-the-concept-of-woman/
Other articles
Dawn Eden, "Eve of Deconstruction: Feminism and John Paul II" https://www.catholicity.com/commentary/eden/03324.html
Thomas V. Mirus, "Should women be meek and mild like Mary?" https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1594
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