Preaching Women: Gender, Power and the Pulpit

Author:   Liz Shercliff ,  Libby Lane
Publisher:   SCM Press
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9780334058380


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 September 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Liz Shercliff ,  Libby Lane
Publisher:   SCM Press
Imprint:   SCM Press
ISBN:  

9780334058380


ISBN 10:   0334058384
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Libby Lane vii Introduction xv 1. What is Preaching? 1 2. Finding My Voice 16 3. Silencing Women: A Silencing Culture 41 4. Hearing Women's Faith 76 5. Hearing Bible Women 106 6. Sermons for Women 129 7. Preaching as a Woman 152 8. Preaching Women 166 Bibliography 169 Index of Names and Subjects 175

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'Not least among Liz Shercliff's achievements in this fine book on preaching is to be reminded that `vocation' and `voice' are rooted in living bodies responding to God's call. What I found especially impressive is Shercliff's patient, determined and gritty interrogation of the patriarchal effects which work to limit women's voices in the pulpit and her determination to re-envision the preacher's work in response. This, then, is not a comfortable book. However, it is a necessary one. It acknowledges the cost and character required for women to find, in their bodies and stories, the hope, fierceness and passion to sing God's wondrous story in fresh ways.' -- Rachel Mann Fast-paced, forthright and spirited, this book is a page-turner! Liz Shercliff draws on her own considerable experience of preaching and wide-ranging research and reading in biblical hermeneutics, feminist theology, spirituality and faith development to protest women's invisibility in much Christian preaching and to show what it can mean to bring women's bodies, stories and lives into conversation with Christian faith. Novice and experienced preachers alike will find much here to stimulate and challenge their preaching. -- Nicola Slee


'Not least among Liz Shercliff's achievements in this fine book on preaching is to be reminded that `vocation' and `voice' are rooted in living bodies responding to God's call. What I found especially impressive is Shercliff's patient, determined and gritty interrogation of the patriarchal effects which work to limit women's voices in the pulpit and her determination to re-envision the preacher's work in response. This, then, is not a comfortable book. However, it is a necessary one. It acknowledges the cost and character required for women to find, in their bodies and stories, the hope, fierceness and passion to sing God's wondrous story in fresh ways.' -- Rachel Mann


Author Information

Liz Shercliff is Director of Studies for Readers in the Diocese of Chester. She is a member of the Executive of the College of Preachers and an Associate of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity's Imagine project. She writes regularly in The Preacher magazine. The Rt Revd Libby Lane is Bishop of Derby.

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