tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post5829167458542116381..comments2024-01-29T06:02:39.583-08:00Comments on Suzanne's Bookshelf: Let Her Speak for HerselfSuzanne McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-28919114365755264912008-04-23T04:29:00.000-07:002008-04-23T04:29:00.000-07:00Thank you, Suzanne!Rereading this Introduction, I ...Thank you, Suzanne!<BR/><BR/>Rereading this Introduction, I get an overwhelming sense of shame for our society today. How far we've regressed, and how much we've repressed the important contributions of the people named in this history. When they were doing so much good interpretive work with the Scriptures, how embarrassing that we in this age are redoing some of it in the name of originality. How awful that our work also has to be in recovery of the repressed and repressive histories we've written. When, for example, we're now seeing documentaries like Ben Stein's Expelled how could we have forgotten the engagements of Harriet Beecher Stowe with Darwinism? Or not built upon the critical approaches to the Bible that Julia Wedgwood, Darwin's cousin despite his theory, developed with the encouragement of Elizabeth Barret Browing and Robert Browning too? What if the generations of our daughters and sons and grandsons and grand daughters could look back at ours and say, what a dark time in the history of women and men, but what a helpful recovery they made?! Thank you again, Suzanne McCarthy and Marion Ann Taylor and Heather Weir!J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.com