Spanning two thousand years of Christian religious women's quest for spiritual and vocational fulfillment, Sisters in Arms is the first definitive history of Catholic nuns in the Western world. Spanning two thousand years of Christian religious women's quest for spiritual and vocational fulfillment, Sisters in Arms is the first definitive history of Catholic nuns in the Western bltadwin.rus: Jo Ann McNamara, JoAnn Kay McNamara. · Spanning two thousand years of Christian religious women’s quest for spiritual and vocational fulfillment, Sisters in Arms is the first definitive history of Catholic nuns in the Western world. Unfolding century by century, this epic drama encompasses every period from the dawn of Christianity to the present.
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Spanning two thousand years of Christian religious women's quest for spiritual and vocational fulfillment, Sisters in Arms is the first definitive history of Catholic nuns in the Western world. Sisters in Arms is a hefty tome (well over pages in hardback) covering the history of nuns and canonesses in the Catholic tradition from the beginning of the church through to the mid s. McNamara has written an account of women religious and their contributions to both the church and their wider societies which is decidedly celebratory. She sees nuns as more than just adjuncts to monks and priests, but as active preservers of the important role which the laity had in the early church. Sisters in Arms is likely to be for some time the definitive history of Catholic religious women in the West. America - Mary N. Macdonald. Sisters in Arms has received great acclaim in the secular press, and makes a splendid contribution to the history of Catholic nuns and sisters. In a single volume she has drawn together the fruits of decades of research and comprehensive documentation, but in a way which makes for compulsive reading rather than boring narrative.
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