Gender and the Nicene Creed

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Writers of scripture and theologians have used scores of images to describe God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Yet only the patriarchal perspective seemed to survive and be taught. In this comprehensive reflection on the Nicene Creed, Elizabeth Rankin [Geitz] looks to the writings of theologians, mystics, and scholars throughout the centuries for a balanced and scholarly approach to an often divisive issue of Christians.

Elizabeth writes, "My desire is to help us move from an initial emotional response to feminine tradition of the church to one that is based on sound biblical, historical and theological principles."

“It is to be hoped that Elizabeth Rankin [Geitz] will be heard....'digging below the surface of commonly held understandings,' Elizabeth discovers how the Creed reveals the feminine attributes of God and the feminine traditions of Christianity.”

– Publisher’s Weekly Religion BookLine

“A cogent and persuasive plea for a return to the full catholic tradition which would make a critical contribution to the debate about gender in matters of faith.”

– Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2009
Author of God Has a Dream and many more

“Elizabeth has done a beautiful job in recovering that which has been lost and found and lost again and again—feminine attributes of God and some important feminine traditions of Christianity. I, for one, am gratefully in her debt.”

– William Sloane Coffin

Author of A Passion for the Possible