Beschreibung:
Sandra M. Schneiders,holds an STL in patristics from the Institut Catholique, Paris, and an STD in scripture and spirituality from the Gregorian University, Rome. The author of several books, she is currently professor of New Testament and Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA.
"I am going to suggest that the culminating contribution of the second millennium, the defining characteristic of the twentieth century, and the most important source of energy for the immediate future is the emergence of women, the beginning of the recognition of the full personhood of half the human family", writes Sandra Schneiders in the introduction to the 2000 Madeleva Lecture, a series that has been as groundbreaking as it has been thought provoking.