Transforming Fire: Women Using Anger Creatively - Softcover

Fischer, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809139022 ISBN 13: 9780809139026

Publisher: Paulist Press, 2000

Synopsis

Anger is not the opposite of love, but an intrinsic element of loving well. This book explains anger as a complex reality with physical, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual components. Women are shown how to understand anger by naming it, choosing to feel it, then integrating it with love. Instead of suppressing anger, they are shown how to transform its fire, find its creative spiritual power, and direct its energies toward life-giving ends. Drawing from psychology, from science, and from major religions, the author addresses issues key to any honest look at anger. Just a few of these include self-esteem, boundaries, conflict, loss, societal expectations, and intimate relationships. She also examines violence against women, powerlessness, and forgiveness, considering examples from contemporary events around the world. With questions, exercises, and a meditation, this is powerful help both for individual and for group use, for the layperson and for the professional, for psychological and for spiritual healing. It's also a valuable resource for classes in women's spirituality and feminist studies. †

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About the Author

Kathleen Fischer is a theology professor, a counselor, and a spiritual director in Seattle, Washington. Her most successful books include Autumn Gospel and Women at the Well. With her husband Thomas Hart she has also written Christian Foundations, The First Two Years of Marriage, and Promises to Keep.

Reviews

A popular author who need not be named has already persuaded us that men are from Mars and women from Venus--but, according to these two new books, men and women are about to exchange native habitations. Here women learn to cultivate anger and men journey toward sensitivity. Fischer's book encourages women to use their outrage at injustice in life-transforming and ultimately spiritual ways. Her model is that of Naomi in the Book of Ruth, who used hardship to her advantage. Groff (Lancaster Theological Sch.; Active Spirituality: A Guide for Seekers and Ministers), on the other hand, treats the spiritual needs and deficiencies of the modern Christian man with surprising vulnerability. He prescribes men's support groups and prayer, together with a group or a spouse and alone. Both of these books are recommended for Christian readers and men's and women's groups.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809139022
• ISBN 13: 9780809139026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201