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I find this book one of the most stimulating contributions to the current discussions on various interpretations of atonement, evil, suffering that I have read. It is a book that is profoundly satisfying and promises to advance the conversation about the meaning and value of suffering from a Christian feminist/woman perspective.Sharon G. Thornton, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology, Pacific School of Religion Kristine Rankka has produced a masterpiece - an insightful analysis of modern feminist interpretations of 'radical' or 'tragic' suffering. Here is a mature work, comprehensive in its breadth, compelling in its argument, moving in its palpable sensitivity, poetic and graceful in its articulation. By invoking the category of the 'tragic, ' Rankka proposes a mystical-political spirituality to move reflection on suffering from the private, to the communal, interdependent realm. Rankka's Women and the Value of Suffering is a creative retrieval of a conversation among women, long in progress, about the meaning of life's suffering. It is eminently readable and thoroughly enriching!George E. Griener, SJ, Academic Dean, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley This book is marvelous. Cogent, coherent, well-organized and carefully expressive, it offers the clearest survey of theological models of suffering I have ever read.Anglican Theological Review

This book is marvelous. Cogent, coherent, well-organized and carefully expressive, it offers the clearest survey of theological models of suffering I have ever read.Anglican Theological Review Kristine Rankka has produced a masterpiece - an insightful analysis of modern feminist interpretations of 'radical' or 'tragic' suffering. Here is a mature work, comprehensive in its breadth, compelling in its argument, moving in its palpable sensitivity, poetic and graceful in its articulation. By invoking the category of the 'tragic,' Rankka proposes a mystical-political spirituality to move reflection on suffering from the private, to the communal, interdependent realm. Rankka's Women and the Value of Suffering is a creative retrieval of a conversation among women, long in progress, about the meaning of life's suffering. It is eminently readable and thoroughly enriching!George E. Griener, SJ, Academic Dean, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley I find this book one of the most stimulating contributions to the current discussions on various interpretations of atonement, evil, suffering that I have read. It is a book that is profoundly satisfying and promises to advance the conversation about the meaning and value of suffering from a Christian feminist/woman perspective.Sharon G. Thornton, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology, Pacific School of Religion

Here is a mature work, comprehensive in its breadth, compelling in its argument, moving in its palpable sensitivity, poetic and graceful in its articulation.

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Kristine M. Rankka holds a bachelor of arts in religion in symbolic expression and a master of Library science from the University of Washington. She has also completed another graduate degree at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.

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