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Updated September 13, 2014

PUBLICATIONS

Sr. Mary Prudence Allen, R.S.M., Ph.D.

(Legal name: Christine Hope Allen)

Books based on original research

2012 The Concept of Woman: Search for Communion of Persons (1500-2015):

Volume III, Grand Rapids: Contract signed with Eerdmans Press.
Forthcoming.

2008 Discover your Dignity: A Woman’s Journey through Life: Part II (Denver:
Endow, 2008), in collaboration with Sr. Lydia Marie Allen, RSM, Sr.
Moria DeBono, RSM, and Sr. Marie Paul Lockerd, RSM.

2007 Discover your Dignity: A Woman’s Journey through Life: Part I (Denver:
Endow, 2008), in collaboration with Sr. Lydia Marie Allen, RSM, Sr.
Moria DeBono, RSM, and Sr. Marie Paul Lockerd, RSM.

2002 The Concept of Woman: The Early Humanist Reformation (1250-1500),

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Press, 2002, pp. 1256.

1997 The Concept of Woman: The Aristotelian Revolution (750 B.C. - 1250
A.D.), Second Edition with new preface and updated bibliography, Grand
Rapids: Eerdman's Press, 1997, pp. 583.

1985 The Concept of Woman: The Aristotelian Revolution (750 B.C. - 1250
A.D.) First Edition, Montreal and London: Eden Press, 1985, pp. 577.

Invited Chapters in Books

2013 “The Passion of Edith Stein-Revisited,” in Edith Stein Volume, ed.

Kathleen Haney (Washington DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies (ICS)
Press, forthcoming).

2009 “Communion in Community.” in Council of Major Superiors of Women

Religious ed., The Foundations of Religious Life: Revisiting the Vision
(South Bend: Ave Marie Press, spring 2009), chapter 4:113-156.

2008 “The Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of Religious Life - Perfectae

Caritatis,” co-authored with Sr. Mary Judith O’Brien, R.S.M., in Vatican
II: Renewal Within Tradition, eds. Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew
Levering (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), Chapter12:251-270.
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2008 “Theory of Women’s Identity, “in Edith Stein: Seeker of Truth (Denver:
Endow, 2008), in collaboration with Elizabeth Mitchell and Terry Wright,
Chapter 4: 53-70.

2003 “La Philosophie de la relation dans le nouveau féminisme de Jean-Paul

II” in Femmes dans le Christ, vers un nouveau Féminisme ed. Michele
Schumacher (Toulouse: Éditions du Carmel, 2003): 21-74.

2003 “Philosophy of Relation in John Paul II’s New Feminism,” in Women in

Christ: Toward a New Feminism, ed. Michele Schumacher (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2003): 67-104.

2003 “Person and Complementarity in Fides et ratio,” in The Two Wings of

Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides et ratio, ed. David Foster.
(Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2003), pp. 36-68.

1995 “Hildegard of Bingen,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Supplement (New

York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1995).

1995 “Edith Stein: The Human Person as Male and Female”, in Images of the
Human: The Philosophy of the Human Person in a Religious Context,
(Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1995), Introduction, Selected Text,
and Commentary: 397-432.

1990 “Descartes, The Concept of Woman, and The French Revolution” in

Revolution, Violence, and Equality, Yaeger Hudson and Creighton Peden,
eds. (Studies in Social and Political Theory, Vol. 10, no. 3, Lewiston/
Queenston/ Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, (1990): 61-78.

1983 “Women in Colonial French America”, in Women in Religion in America

(The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods), Volume II, Rosemary Radford
Ruether and Rosemary Keller, eds, San Francisco: Harper and Row
(1983):79-132.

1980 “Bridging the Gulf of Meaning,” The R.V.H. Manual on Palliative Care,
New York: Arno Press, (1980): 231-242.

1979 “Nietzsche's Ambivalence about Women,” The Sexism of Social and

Political Theory, Lorenne Clark and Lynda Lange eds., Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, (1979): 117-133.

1979 “Who was Rebecca?”, revised as “On Me Be the Curse, My Son”, Chapter
10 in Encounter with the Text, Issues in Hermeneutics with special
attention to Genesis 25-35, ed. Martin Buss, Montana: Scholar's Press,
Semaia, (1979): 159-172.
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1976 “Sex-Identity and Personal Identity”, Contemporary Canadian Philosophy

Series, Vol 1: Values and the Quality of Life, eds. W. Shea and J. King
Farlow, Toronto: Neal Watson, Academic Publications, Inc., (1976): 93-
125.

Articles published in refereed journals

2008 “Friendship, Gender, and Vocation,” Josephinum: Journal of Theology,

vol. 15, no 1 (Winter/spring 2008): 102-139.

2006 “Man-Woman Complementarity: The Catholic Inspiration,” Logos: A

Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 9:3 (summer 2006): 1-22.
Complete text online posted on the Website of the Pontifical Council for
the Laity: Women Section [Giugno/June 2008].

2005 “Teaching Modern and Contemporary Philosophy in Seminary,” Co-

authored with Terry Wright, PhD, Seminary Journal of the National
Catholic Educational Association, vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 22-26.

2004 “How Catholic Philosophy Can Engage Secular Culture in Education,”

Maritain Studies, Vol. XX (2004): 106-147.

2004 “Where is Our Conscience? Aquinas and Modern and Contemporary

Philosophers. International Philosophical Quarterly, vol.44, no.3, issue
175 (September 2004): 335-373.

2002 “The Passion of Edith Stein,” Fides Quaerens Intellectum: A Journal of

Theology, Philosophy, and History, Vol. I, no. 2 (winter 2001): 201-250.

2002 “Venerable Catherine McAuley and The Dignity of the Human Person,”
New Blackfriars (February 2002): 52-72.

1998 “Can Feminism Be a Humanism,?” Études Maritainnes/Maritain Studies,

No. 14 (1998): 109-140.

1996 “Foundational Virtues for Community,” Études Maritainnes/Maritain

Studies, No. 12 (1996): 133-149.

1993 “Sex and Gender Differentiation in Hildegard of Bingen and Edith Stein,”
Communio: International Catholic Review, Vol.XX, no.2, (Summer,
1993): 389-414.

1992 co-authored with Filippo Salvatore, “Lucrezia Marinelli and Woman's

Identity in Late Italian Renaissance,” Renaissance and Reformation, New
Series Vol. XXVIII, no.4 (1992): 5-39.
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1992 “A Woman and A Man as Prime Analogical Beings,” American Catholic

Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. LXVI, No. 4 (1992): 456-82.

1992 “Fuller's Synergetics and Sex Complementarity,” International

Philosophical Quarterly, xxxii, no 1, issue 125 (March 1992) 3-16.

1990 “Integral Sex Complementarity and the Theology of Communion,” in

Communio: International Catholic Review, 17 (Winter, 1990): 523-544.

1989 “Analogy and Human Community in Lublin Existential Personalism,” The

Toronto Journal of Theology, 5/2 (Fall 1989): 236-46.

1989 “Hildegard of Bingen's Philosophy of Sex Complementarity,” Thought,

Vol. 64, no. 254 (Sept. 1989): 231-241.

1987 “The Influence of Plato and Aristotle on The Concept of Woman in

Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Florigium, Vol. 9 (1987), 89-111.

1987 “Aristotelian and Cartesian Revolutions in the Philosophy of Man and

Woman"”and “Response” in Dialogue, Journal of the Canadian
Philosophical Association, XXVI/2 (Summer 1987): 263-279.

1987 “Two Medieval Views on Woman's Identity: Hildegard of Bingen and

Thomas Aquinas,” Studies in Religion, Vol. 16, No. 1, (1987): 21-36.

1987 “Soul, Body and Transcendence in St. Teresa of Avila,” in Toronto

Journal of Theology, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Fall 1987): 252-266.

1983 “Sex Unity, Polarity, or Complementarity?” in International Journal of

Women's Studies, Vol. 6, Number 4 (Sept./Oct. 1983): 311-326.

1981 “Christ our Mother in Julian of Norwich,” Studies in Religion, Vol. 10, 4,
(Fall 1981): 32-39.

1980 “Integral Sex Complementarity and the Theology of Communion,”

Communio 17 (winter 1980): 523-544.

1980 “Ideology Separates While the Heart Binds: Response to Lonergan's

Prolegomena,” Studies in Religion, 9/1 (Winter, 1980): 21-24.

1975 “Plato on Women,” Feminist Studies, Vol. 2, no.2/3, (1975): 131-38.

1974 “Conceptual History as a Methodology in Women's Studies”, McGill

Journal of Education, Vol. X, No. 1 (Spring 1974): 49-58.
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1971 “Can a Woman be Good in the Same Way as a Man?,” Dialogue, Journal
of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Vol. 10, No. 2, (1971): 534-
544.

Articles in unrefereed journals

2009 “Mary and the Vocation of Philosophers,” New Blackfriars

Vol. 90.,no. 1025 (January 2009): 50-71.

2006 “A Woman’s Wager,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review cvi. No. 9 (summer
2006): 13-19.

2006 “Ransoming Treasured Words,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review, cvi, no. 6
(March 2006): 22-29.

2005 “Formation in an electronic age,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review, vol. cv,
no. 9 (June 2005): 8-16.

2002 “Freedom and the Fatherhood of Priests,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review,
Vol. CII, no. 4 (January 2002): 18-27.

1994 “Mother Earth and Father Sun in Copernicus and Galileo,” Lonergan
Review, Vol. III (1994): 16-44.

1991 “The Lessons of The Oneida Community for Today: Philosophical and
Religious Foundations,” Oneida Community Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1
(March 1991): 3-9.

1987 “Six Canadian Catholic Women: Their Call, Their Witness, Their
Legacy” in Canadian Catholic Review, Vol. 5, No. 7 (July/August , 1987):
246-258.

Articles published as proceedings of conferences

2011 “Mary and the Vocation of Philosophers,” in John P. Hittinger, ed, The
Vocation of the Catholic Philosopher: From Maritain to John Paul II
(Washington DC: American Maritain Association- Distributed by the
Catholic University of America Press, 2011): 51-76.

2009 “Mulieris Dignitatem: Twenty Years Later: An Overview of the

Document and Challenges,” Ave Maria Law Review Vol 8, no 1 (Fall
2009): 13-47.

2008 “The Impact of Internet Use on the Spirituality of Communion,”

Proceedings of the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious
National Assembly, Theme: Putting on the Mind of Christ, National
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Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, Belleville, Illinois, (Washington DC:

CMSWR, October 2008): 57-78.

2007 “Analogy, Law and the Workplace: Complementarity, Conscience and the
Common Good,” in University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Symposium:
Workplace Restructuring to Accommodate Family Life, Vol. 4, No. 3
(spring 2007): 350-378.

2007 “Catholic Marriage and Feminism,” in The Church, Marriage, and the
Family, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
Convention, Kenneth D. Whitehead (South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s
Press, 2007), Chapter 7: 95-144.

2007 “Remarks on Receiving the Cardinal Wright Award,” in The Church,

Marriage, and the Family, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Fellowship of
Catholic Scholars Convention, Kenneth D. Whitehead (South Bend,
Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, forthcoming 2007), Chapter 25: 406-408.

1997 “Femininity and Chastity,” Proceedings of the Eighth National Assembly

of the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, (1997): 57-92.

1997 “Language and the Invitation to Conversion,” Language and Faith:

Proceedings from the Nineteenth Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic
Scholars (1997): 93-128.

1996 “Metaphysics of Form, Matter, and Gender,” Lonergan Workshop,

Volume 12 (1996): 1-26.

1994 co-authored with Sister Mary Kathleen Ronan, RSM, STD, “The Human
Person, Kerygma, and Religious Life,” Proceedings of the Council of
Major Superiors of Women Religious (1994): 11-39.

1994 “Rationality, Gender, and History,” American Catholic Philosophical

Quarterly, Proceedings of 1994 Annual Conference (1994) Vol. LXVIII,
271-288.

1988 “Theories of Sex Identity: Some Proposed Areas of Application” in

Proceedings of the XVIIth World Congress of Philosophy Vol. V (1988):
54-62.

1988 “Women Philosophers before 1300, Proceedings of the XVIIth World

Congress of Philosophy (1988), Vol. II, 635-639.

1986 “Relations Homme/Femme: Les révolutions aristotélicienne et

cartésienne,” Égalité et différence des sexes: Cahiers de L'ACFAS 1986
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(Actes de Colloque International Sur la Situation de la Femme), Montréal:

Université de Montréal, 1986, 325-337.

1977 "Who Was Rebekah?," Beyond Androcentrism: New Essays on Women

and Religion, Rita Gross, ed., (Montana: Scholars Press, 1977), 183-216.

1973 “Good and Evil for Woman,” Women and Religion, The American
Academy of Religion, 1973 proceedings, Judith Goldenberg and Joan
Romero, eds, 104-107.

Electronic Publications

2012 “Plato, Aristotle, and the Concept of Woman in Early Jewish Philosophy”
Reposted on line at Florilegium’s website, University of New Brunswick
<http://journals.hil/unb.ca/index.php/flor>

2011 “The Passion of Edith Stein Revisited” Reposted online at the Website of
the Pontifical Council for the Laity: Women Section
[November/December 2011].

2010 “Mulieris Dignitatem Twenty Years Later: An Overview of the Document

and Challenges,” Complete text online posted on the Website of the
Pontifical Council for the Laity: Women Section [November/December
2010]

2009 “The Passion of Edith Stein Revisited”, Festschrift to Honor Fr.

Eleutherius Winnance’s 100th Anniversary of Birth. Available at:
http://www.philonoeses.org/SrPAllen.pdf [cited 08/July/09]: 1-22.

2008 “Man-Woman Complementarity: The Catholic Inspiration,” Logos: A

Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 9:3 (summer 2006):1-22.
Complete text online posted on the Website of the Pontifical Council for
the Laity: Women Section [Giugno/June 2008]

Newspaper Articles or Electronic Interviews

2012 “Catholic women welcome HHS controversy as chance to speak ‘truth’,

EWTN News and CNA, Interview by Hillary Senour (April 26, 2012).

2011 “Called to Communion: What are the past, present, and future of theology
of the body?” National Catholic Registrar, (March 13-26).

2010 “Nun Sense: Women in the Catholic Church,” Written Interview with
Kathryn-Jean Lopez, National Review On Line, (April 13, 2010).
Available at: http://article.nationalreview.com/432597/nun-sense-women-
in-the-catholic-church/kathryn-jean-lopez
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Published in The Catholic Times, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1990 Review of The Burning Times by The National Film Board of Canada,
December 1990.

1982 “The redemption of woman and man,” June 1982.

1982 “Rupture of the Covenant Between Woman and Man,” May 1982.

1982 “The fruit of the union of woman and man,” April 1982.

1982 “Man, woman --- an original gift for each other,” March 1982.

1982 “Nuptial meaning of the body discussed by John Paul,” February 1982.

1982 “Original solitude and community of women and men,” January 1982.

1981 “Pope goes back to the `beginning' in study of man and woman,”
December 1981.

1980 “Chastity and Freedom in Six Early Quebec Women,” Vol. 4, Nos. 2-10;
Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2, Oct. 1979-Oct. 1980.

Published in National Catholic News Service; Washington, D.C.

1986 “The Will is Power: St. Augustine,” May 15, 1986.

1986 “Socrates: A man of Integrity,” April 1, 1986.

1985 “Nuns in the 21st Century,” February 14, 1985.

1984 "Sisters in the Modern World," November 12, 1984.

1984 “The Paths to Meaning" (Viktor Frankl)”, September 14, 1984.

1984 “The Pope in the Modern World” (interview), June 25, 1984.

1984 “Through a Glass Darkly” (The Meaning of Mary), June 4, 1984.

1984 “The Story of Georges Vanier,” January 16, 1984.

1983 “Simone Weil: God in the human situation,” December 26, 1983.
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1983 “Father Chapman’s Down-to-Earth Advice,” December 12, 1983.

1983 “Who are today's martyrs?,” April 1983.

1983 “Brother Andre: Gentle healer of Mount Royal,” March 1983.

1983 “The Spirit of Scholars and Mystics,” January 24, 1983.

1982 “Marguerite d'Youville: The effect of addiction on families,” December

6, 1982.

1982 “Marguerite Bourgeoys: Her vocation and canonization,” October 8,

1982.

1982 "Marie of the Incarnation: Educator for the New World,” September 5,
1982.

Republication of articles or chapters in books

2008 “Filozofia relacji W Nowym Feminizmie Jana Pawla II” in Kobiety w

Chrystusie: W strone nowego feminizmu, pod rekakcja Michele M.
Schumacher (Warszawa: Centrun Mysli Jana Pawla II, 2008): 33-79.

2008 “Czy Feminizm moze byc Humanizmem?” in Kobiety w Chrystusie: W

strone nowego feminizmu, pod rekakcja Michele M. Schumacher
(Warszawa: Centrun Mysli Jana Pawla II, 2008): 386-430.

2003 Le féminisme peut-it être un humanisme? in Femmes dans le Christ, vers

un nouveau Féminisme ed. Michele Schumacher (Toulouse: Éditions du
Carmel, 2003): 417-465.

2003 “Can Feminism be a Humanism,” in Women in Christ: Toward a New

Feminism. Michele Schumacher, ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003):
251-284.

1995 “Sv. Augustinas: trys lyciu tapatumo teorijos” (a Lithuanian translation of

the chapter on Augustine from The Concept of Woman), Reminizmo
Ekskursai: Moters Samprata Nuo Antikos Iki Postmodernizmo, ed. Karla
Groudis (Vilnius: Pradai, 1995): 71-103.

1995 “Lucrezia Marinelli: La donna nel tardo Rinascimento italiano” (an Italian
translation of article co-authored with Filippo Salvatore) in Prospettiva
persona: Trimestrale del Centro Ricerche Personaliste Part I Anno III-
N.9-10 (Luglio-Dicembre 95): x-xiii, with rest in subsequent issues.
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1993 “Nietzsche's Tension About Women,” extensively revised from 1979

article “Nietzsche's Ambivalence About Women,” in Lonergan Review,
Vol 2 (1993): 42-67.

1986 “Sex Unity, Polarity, or Complementarity?” republished as chapter in

Women and Men, ed. Greta Hofmann Nemiroff (Toronto: Fitzhenny and
Whiteside Canada, Ltd., 1986):3-21.

1983 “A Contemporary Approach to Sex Identity” (excerpt from “Sex-Identity

and Personal Identity”), Philosophy of Woman: Classical to Current
Concepts, Mary Mahowald, ed., (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co.,
1978), 261-276. Reprinted 1983, 348-375.

1979 “Can a Woman be Good in the Same Way as a Man?” in Women in

Western Thought, Martha Lee Osborne, ed., (New York: Random House,
1979), 45-47.

1975 “Conceptual History as Methodology in Women's Studies,” Republished

in full in Canadian Association of University Teachers Bulletin, Vol 24,
No. 1, (September 1975), 10-12.