Understanding Other Religious Worlds is built on the difference between learning facts about other religions and understanding them and their followers in a wholistic manner
and simultaneously be aligned with Christian thought
(A full four-volume history was published when the Council concluded in 1965)
a phenomenon revealed at each stage of its history by the missionary movement
Women & Christianity: Volume 1 Religion_ Ecumenism & Interfaith Understanding Other Religious Worlds is"Excellent . . . . A welcome addition to the literature, well grounded, accessible, and able to inform." Mary Jo Weaver, Indiana University The history of Christianity reveals a great ambivalence towards women. On the one hand, women have been included, graced, called, inspired, and canonized throughout the centuries. On the other, women have not always felt appreciated, and have indeed often been excluded and even oppressed. in Women and Christianity