Rediscovering Friendship
Awakening to the Power and Promise of Women's Friendships
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Rediscovering Friendship: Awakening to the Power and Promise of Women's Friendships
"Friendship is a broad sphere which unites heaven and
earth..."
Less beholden to traditional models of family and to classical male ideals, a new generation is re-evaluating and transforming friendship, says Elizabeth Moltmann-Wendel.
Observing this phenomenon, particularly among women, she elaborates its biblical affinities and its potential for enriching an often-friendless culture. In an honest and meditative style, Moltmann-Wendel finds in friendship new dimensions of adventure, consolation, self-knowledge, love, and political relevance, as well as profound resonances with Jesus' friendships with women, especially Mary Magdalene, and with his friends at the Last Supper.
Less beholden to traditional models of family and to classical male ideals, a new generation is re-evaluating and transforming friendship, says Elizabeth Moltmann-Wendel.
Observing this phenomenon, particularly among women, she elaborates its biblical affinities and its potential for enriching an often-friendless culture. In an honest and meditative style, Moltmann-Wendel finds in friendship new dimensions of adventure, consolation, self-knowledge, love, and political relevance, as well as profound resonances with Jesus' friendships with women, especially Mary Magdalene, and with his friends at the Last Supper.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800634452
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 136
- Publication Date June 20, 2001
Table of Contents
- Traditions of Friendship with God
The biblical basis
Later traces
- From Friendship with God to Friendship between Women
Jürgen Moltmann
Sallie McFague
Carter Heyward
Mary Hunt
Hildegund Keul
Earthing friendship
- Jesus, the Friend
Dying for friends
Wisdom's friendly meal
The friend in everyday life
- The Last Supper as a Meal of Friendship
Self-surrender instead of sacrifice
The life-giving body of Jesus
Theogusty—tasting God
- The Separation of God and Goodness
Women's experiences
Complicity
Forgiveness and healing
- Jesus' Friend—Mary Magdalene
Motherhood versus friendship
The counter-story
The church in the spirit of Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene as a social symbol
- Friendly Contacts: Tenderness and Eros
What is tenderness?
Political tenderness
Men discover tenderness
Eroticism as women's power
Eros in Christianity
From Eros to housework
- My Body—My Friend
New knowledge of the body
Freeing oneself from false attributes
Healing self-insight
Natality and curiosity
- Friendship with the Earth
The creative earth
The earth interceding for justice
The helping earth
The transforming power of the earth
- Closing Thoughts
Notes