I haven't read the novel, but the 1928 adaptation of The Wind is one of my favorite silent films. The book cover you included is a production still from the movie, featuring the great Lillian Gish.
"Tentatively titled Twice Rebels, the book centers on the hidden figures who are dropped from history because they are too Christian for the feminists and too feminist for the Christians."
I am currently reading Men of Maize by Miguel Angel Astruias because I'll be travelling to Guatemala with my family in about 6 weeks. I always like to read books from a native's perspective and this book fit the bill - doesn't hurt that the author won a Pulitzer back in the 60s! It's a strange, surrealist book but I'm still curious 1/3 of the way in....
I am SO excited for your book - especially after hearing bits and pieces about it at Regent last summer! Thank you for the other recs, too - they'd fit nicely in my classical bookstore I work at!
Excellent edition as usual. This Summer, I am reading (among other things) Lonesome Dove, The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, and Grant by Ron Chernow. It's an audacious goal at well over 2,000 pages of material, but that's only around 27 pages a day, which is more than doable.
I love Sayers and Edith Stein. To tell the truth Edith surprised me and swept me off my feet when I found myself at her canonization mass, knowing nothing at all about her.
Scarborough is new to me, but as a fellow native Texan I find myself with a hankering to read The Wind.
I love the scope of your book project: "too Christian for the feminists and too feminist for the Christians."
As an Anglican, I’ve observed this peculiarity and don’t want to make of it: some Protestants, whose denominations ordain women to the diaconate and priesthood, showcase contemporary women who are “too feminist for the Christians,” whereas Catholics, who maintain an all-male clergy, have a rich history of women who are “too Christian for the feminists” (e.g., Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Ávila, Catherine of Siena). Thoughts?
Sayers: “What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always a member of a class and not as an individual person.” We should take women individually and engage their ideas and witness, rather than subsume them in a label or treat them as a class.
Agreed. But this doesn’t answer the peculiarity. We might expect egalitarian Protestants to be more pro-women than complementarian Catholics, but history shows us otherwise. Contrary to popular opinion, the Catholic Church is emphatically pro-women, not only in its veneration of the Blessed Virgin but in its veneration of female saints and doctors of the Church. Catholics respect a woman qua woman rather than women as a class.
I haven't read the novel, but the 1928 adaptation of The Wind is one of my favorite silent films. The book cover you included is a production still from the movie, featuring the great Lillian Gish.
I am SO excited about this book! I’ll be on the edge of my seat. Thank you, Dr. Wilson!
Thank you for the encouragement!
Wow can't wait to read this new book! Godspeed! :) Your endorsement stack has added to my TBR list as well!
What a wealth of books -- my already immense TBR pile grew again as I read this. And I can't wait for yours!!
Thank you!
Oh, and a comparison of Love All and The Women sounds superb! REALLY can't wait for that!
"Tentatively titled Twice Rebels, the book centers on the hidden figures who are dropped from history because they are too Christian for the feminists and too feminist for the Christians."
Yes. YES.
Now you see why I can't wait for your book--we're soul aligned, friend!
I am currently reading Men of Maize by Miguel Angel Astruias because I'll be travelling to Guatemala with my family in about 6 weeks. I always like to read books from a native's perspective and this book fit the bill - doesn't hurt that the author won a Pulitzer back in the 60s! It's a strange, surrealist book but I'm still curious 1/3 of the way in....
I am SO excited for your book - especially after hearing bits and pieces about it at Regent last summer! Thank you for the other recs, too - they'd fit nicely in my classical bookstore I work at!
Excellent edition as usual. This Summer, I am reading (among other things) Lonesome Dove, The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, and Grant by Ron Chernow. It's an audacious goal at well over 2,000 pages of material, but that's only around 27 pages a day, which is more than doable.
Have you seen the 1939 version of The Women? I just watched it for the first time.
I love Sayers and Edith Stein. To tell the truth Edith surprised me and swept me off my feet when I found myself at her canonization mass, knowing nothing at all about her.
Scarborough is new to me, but as a fellow native Texan I find myself with a hankering to read The Wind.
I love the scope of your book project: "too Christian for the feminists and too feminist for the Christians."
Thanks for inviting us to share what we’re reading this summer. Here’s my reading stack:
Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
Edith Hall, Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
George Guiver, All Christians Are Monks: The Monastery, the Parish and the Renewal of the Church
N. T. Wright, The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
As an Anglican, I’ve observed this peculiarity and don’t want to make of it: some Protestants, whose denominations ordain women to the diaconate and priesthood, showcase contemporary women who are “too feminist for the Christians,” whereas Catholics, who maintain an all-male clergy, have a rich history of women who are “too Christian for the feminists” (e.g., Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Ávila, Catherine of Siena). Thoughts?
Sayers: “What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always a member of a class and not as an individual person.” We should take women individually and engage their ideas and witness, rather than subsume them in a label or treat them as a class.
Agreed. But this doesn’t answer the peculiarity. We might expect egalitarian Protestants to be more pro-women than complementarian Catholics, but history shows us otherwise. Contrary to popular opinion, the Catholic Church is emphatically pro-women, not only in its veneration of the Blessed Virgin but in its veneration of female saints and doctors of the Church. Catholics respect a woman qua woman rather than women as a class.