Finding Eve’s spirit in the teachings of Jesus, authors Roberta Pughe and Paula Sohl explore her bold, self-directed, and inquisitive nature as a model for women today who have been negatively affected by the oppressive and hierarchical fundamentalist Church. Drawing on personal experiences, Paula and Roberta analyze fundamentalist systems from political, theological, and psychological perspectives to unveil the ways patriarchal religious dogma stifles women’s voices and spirits.
Filled with profound theological reflections, moving stories of women embracing their spiritual power, and healing ritual ideas and dance, Resurrecting Eveoffers women a return to their rightful place of equality and authority within Christianity.
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Excerpt From the Book We declare it good that Eve was curious. Acting as an independent, intuitive thinker, her display of courage brought knowledge and awareness both to herself and to all humanity. With this action came individuation and maturation. Expanding consciousness, much like labor, is a painful experience, yet painful experiences can often give birth to a blessing. Eve’s eating of the fruit was a blessing. We acknowledge and reclaim her as a mentor and suggest that aspects of her essence are heard consistently in women’s diverse voices. Eve’s spirit needs re-imagining in today’s culture — she communicates a universal spiritual wisdom to women. Eve, the mother of all who live, desires to nurture all of her daughters, to impart empowering spiritual and practical truths, plucked from the tree of knowledge.
Endorsements Up front is an astute analysis of the Christian right’s political attitude about “a woman’s place,” and an equally well-done reinterpretation of Eve, as the title would suggest. ... Even as they weave an Eastern, New Age flair into a Christian understanding of the body, sexual orientation and love, Pughe and Sohl never stray from a biblical foundation.
— Publishers Weekly
Resurrecting Eve: Women of Faith Challenge the Fundamentalist Agenda is a gripping and incisive examination of Christian Fundamentalism and its repressive doctrines toward women. But it is much more than insightful analysis. Sohl and Pughe write beautifully and perceptively about the lives of women who have been negatively affected by this movement and what we can do to make the Christian Bible an instrument of joy, healing and empowerment rather than harm.
— Carlene Cross, author, Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister’s Wife Examines Faith
A book I just could not stop thinking about … The lessons of Resurrecting Eve are rendered in a gentle nurturing way, by two women I feel must be very much like myself. This believable work made me realize exactly why I am who I am. I now have a far deeper understanding of the rubric within which I live, this Christian life that is all of me.”
— Bea Madden
Pughe’s and Sohl’s artful analysis in Resurrecting Eve adds a powerful new voice to the new spiritualities of women emerging from African-American, Latina and Asian-American communities. This book especially lays bare the violation of human values, and of the Christian gospel, currently perpetrated among patriarchal networks of the U.S. Christian Right. Essential reading.
— Mark Lewis Taylor Professor of Theology and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary. Author, Religion, Politics and the Christian Right
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