JOURNEYS BY HEART

Winner of the 1988 Crossroad Womens Studies Award An emotionally provacative book, Journeys by Heart places the theology of the abused child at the center of feminist theory. A revisioning of Christianity, it stretches traditional concepts and sheds new light on the fact that through our acts of love and lovelessness we create one another. -- The Award Advisory Commitee Brocks Asian and American experiences seem to have given her some remarkable insights. . . . the epilogue Journeying by Heart is a veritable Fodors of feminism and femininity. -- Publishers Weekly Brock, as a Christian theologian, is both insightful and inciting. . . . What I find most powerful in this books approach to the gospel is its emphasis on the need to break out of death-dealing, hierarchical patterns of life in our families and communities. -- Daughters of Sarah Brocks vision is compelling, original, and tantalizing. Her thesis is bold, and right as rain. Furthermore, it is indeed emotionally provocative. . . . Brock has given us an important and exciting work in this volume. We can hope to hear more from this intriguing and tantalizing young theologian. -- St. Lukes Journal of Theology A fresh perspective on the standard problems in feminist theology. . . . This book will have broad appeal. Brock presents her ideas in an accessible way, and her theology of child abuse should interest anyone--lay person, cleric, or academic--who wants to know more about relationship of religion to feminism. -- Theology Today Rita Nakashima Brockis Associate Professor in the Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Hamline University, former director of the Womens Studies Program at Stephens College, and serves on the boards of several feminist, religious, and peace organizations, including the Center for the Preventions of Sexual and Domestic Violence and the editorial board of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion._,