| Assumption College to Hold Lecture Featuring Author Dr.
Carol Flinders
Worcester, MA—Assumption College presents
a lecture on “Women
and Christianity” on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 4:00 p.m. in the Auditorium
of the La Maison Francaise.
Dr. Carol Flinders, author of Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven
Women Mystics, as well as At The Root of This Longing: Reconciling
a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst will be presenting this lecture.
Dr. Flinders received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University
of California at Berkeley specializing in medieval studies. She has taught
courses in mystical literature at UC Berkeley, and at the Graduate Theological
Union in Berkeley, California. She is presently completing a book, Enduring
Lives: An Informal Gathering of Women Mystics, Teachers, and Spiritual Activists,
which profiles contemporary women she believes live and work in the “spiritual
mother-line” of women like Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint Catherine
of Genoa.
This event is free and to the public. For more information, contact the Office
of Public Affairs at (508) 767-7160 or at acpa@assumption.edu.
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