„I była matką Dziewicy Maryi i babką Boga i człowieka”: kobiece genealogie w interpretacjach źródeł wiary
“She Was Both the Mother of the Virgin Mary and the Grandmother of God and Humankind”: Female Genealogies in Interpretations of Sources of Faith

Summary/Abstract: The memory of Christian communities, negotiated and constructed in the first centuries of our era, is an androcentric one, as the canon of the Good News and its interpretations by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church have excluded women’s voices from the dominant narrative of faith. However, women’s words and agency constitute an irreducible part of Christian heritage. Lewandowska analyses several examples of women theologians – early modern and contemporary – who search for biblical genealogies. She highlights the changing meanings of dignitas and modestia as rhetorical tools as well as the semantic and somatic manifestations used in constructing the notion of the author and the authorfunction by these writers. Lewandowska’s discussion of the re-evaluation of the place of women in the history of the Catholic Church and its Magisterium draws on the theory of affect. This opens up new interpretative possibilities that go beyond conventional dichotomies such as female/male, centre/periphery, resistance/assimilation.

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