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The Feminine Genius of Catholic Theology introduces Catholic doctrine through the crucible of the women mystics’ reception of the gospel. The work of the great women theologians of the Church’s second millennium has too often been neglected—or relegated to the category of “mysticism”—in textbooks on Catholic doctrine. This is a shame, because their work shows the interior conjunction of...

continuity and discontinuity. Our risen bodies will be composed of earthly elements, but these elements will have undergone a profound purification. Something radically new will emerge, but without losing continuity with the old creation. Humans will rise “in soul and body, with no deformity or mutilation but intact in body and in gender.”4 All bodies will be beautiful, but beauty will be measured primarily in spiritual terms. Our risen bodies will be translucent to our souls, and the spiritual health
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