From the Book - New rev. and expanded ed.
The New Testament and Christian origins
Clement of Alexandria and the Gnostics : Women, sexuality, and marriage in orthodoxy and heterodoxy (selections from Clement's "On marriage" and from the Gospel of Mary)
Jerome : The exaltation of Christian virginity (Selections from Letter Twenty-Two ("To Eustoehium") and from Against Joyinian)
Augustine : Sinfulness and sexuality (Selections from On marriage and concupiscence)
Thomas Aquinas and the scholastic woman (Selections from the Summa Theologica)
Women religious of the Middle Ages (Selections from Angela of Foligno's Memorial, from Julian of Norwich's The revelations of divine love, from Catherine of Siena's Letters, and from The book of Margery Kempe)
Woman as witch : witchcraft persecutions in the Old and New Worlds (Selections from the Malleus Maleficarum and documents from the Salem Witchcraft Trials)
The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic response (Selections from Luther's The estate of marriage and from Lectures on Genesis)
John Milton : The Puritan transformation of marriage (Selections from The doctrine and discipline of divorce)
Friedrich Schleiermacher and romantic theology (Selections from Christmas Eve and from Ten commandments [on Sexual love and marriage])
Communitarian movements in America : Shakers, the Oneida community, and Mormons (Selections from Shaker sources, from John Humphrey Noyes's Bible Communism, and from Orson Pratt's "Celestial marriage")
Movements for religious and social reform in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America (Selections from Sarah Grimké's Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of women, from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The woman's Bible, and from Jarena Lee's Journal)
Twentieth-century sexual issues : contraception, abortion, and homosexuality (Selections from Pius XI's Casri Connubii (On Christian marriage), from Beverly Wildung Harrison's "Theology of Pro-choice," and from Carter Heyward's "A sacred contempt : heterosexist theology" and "Coming out and relational empowerment")
Feminist liberation theologies (Selections from Mary Daly's "The women's movement : an exodus community," from Rosemary Radford Ruether's Sexism and God-talk, from Jacquelyn Grant's White women's Christ and Black women's Jesus, and from Ada María Isasi-Díaz's "Mujeristas : a name of our own").
