Christianity

The Church ofEngland was still resolved against ordaining women when in 1986 a vote was passed forbidding invitations to visiting, foreign women priests to celebrate Holy Communion. MF and her associates responded by founding the...

MF herself supplies an introduction explaining the book's intention to address the narrower question of women's ordination and the broader question of the full evaluation of women within the Christian community. She deals briefly...

This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...

MF begins her introduction with Saint Thérèse as exemplar of that style of traditional female sanctity which involves drastic self-abnegation, with Sackville-West 's attribution to her of niaiserie or sugariness, and with her own consequent...

In Bird of Paradise: Glimpses of Living MythMF , as her title implies, looks at traditional ways of presenting Christian faith, and at their compatibility with the contemporary world.

This volume collects poems written over a period of nearly twenty years, covering devotion (some hymns; praise of sermons by Turner as her local Dissenting minister), politics (a fable attacking Lord Bute ), social satire...

The third section of the poem returns to the themes of immortality, impermanence, and the saving grace of Christianity . Dionysius, visiting Myra's grave thirty years after her death, laments her loss but praises God...

NJ 's father, Samuel Jacob , had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago...

All that came to her, she believed, came by illumination because of a past birth, and because she pushed [herself] on to a point of spiritual evolution somewhat in advance of the rest of...

AK 's intention in The Perfect Way was to reveal the Ancient Doctrine of the Constitution of Existence and the Nature of Religion and to supply a system of thought and rule of life adapted...

The book offers fragments of the Sacred Books of Hermes , which arose from the latest productions of Greek philosophy yet contain some traces of the religious doctrine of ancient Eygpt. These doctrines...

In her final will and testament, AK bequeathed all her unpublished and incomplete manuscripts to Edward Maitland , who released them to the public in the years following her death. These included: a book of...

Le féminin et le sacré investigates the place of women in the domain of the sacred, and in various world religions. L'Incroyable besoin de croire argues that Christianity paved the way for humanism.

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...

In 1901 she contributed another introduction, this time to Joseph Joshua Green 's War: Is it or is it not consistent with Christianity ?, whose first edition, too, dated from this year.