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Liturgical Resources

Useful Biblical Resources: Commentaries, Translations and Lectionary

  • Resources for Celebrating GCSRW's 50th Year
  • Women’s Bible Commentary: Reviews and Updated, 3rd Edition edited by Carol Newsom, Sharon Ringe, and Jacqueline Lapsley (Westminster John Knox Press, 2012)
  • The New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Version (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
  • Inclusive Language Lectionary, Years A (1983), B (1984), C (1985), (New York: National Council of Churches)
  • Inclusive Language Psalms (Pilgrim Press, 1987)
  • The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation (Priests for Equality, 2007)
  • The People’s Bible edited by  Deyong, Glafney, et. al. (Fortress, 2008)

Introductions to Non-Sexist Language (Includes Historical and Theological Examinations)

  • On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
  • The Power to Speak: Feminism, Language, God by Rebecca S. Chopp (Wipf & Stock 2002)
  • Finding Words for Worship by Ruth Duck (Westminster John Knox Press, 1995)
  • Feminist Mysticism and Images of God: A Practical Theology by Jennie S. Knight (Chalice, 2011)
  • Metaphorical Theology by Sallie McFague (Fortress, 1982)
  • The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery of God as Female by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott (Crossroad, 1983)
  • Sexism and God-Talk by Rosemary Radford Ruether (Beacon, 1993)
  • In Whose Image?: God and Gender by Jann Aldredge-Clanton  (Crossroads, 2001)
  • The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery of God as Female by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott (Crossroad, 1984)
  • Language and the Church edited by Barbara Withers (National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1984)
  • Women and Worship: A Guide to Nonsexist Hymns, Prayers, and Liturgies by Sharon and Thomas Neufer Emswiler (Harper & Row, 1984)
  • What Language Shall I Borrow? by Brian Wren (Crossroads, 1989)
  • More Than Words: Prayer and Ritual for Inclusive Communities by Janet Schaffron and Pat Kozak (Meyer Stone Books, 1988)

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