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Enduring Lives: Living Portraits of Women and Faith in Action By Carol Lee Flinders, Orbis, 2013, 277 pp., ISBN 978-1-62698-034-1, $24.00.
When Carol Lee Flinders earned her doctorate at the University of California Berkeley, in the field of comparative literature, she chose to specialize in the field of medieval studies. Her scholarship led to the 1993 publication of Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics. Its examination of the inspired lives of saints (Claire of Assisi, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Catherine of Genoa, Teresa of Avila, Thérèse of Lisieux), while...