CUTV News Radio Spotlights Author Joan Schaupp

Green Bay, WI – Joan Schaupp is a political theologist: that is, she studies the intersection of political science and theology.

Joan is perhaps best known for her book Woman: Image of the Holy Spirit (1975), a groundbreaking study of the feminine spirit implicit in the Triune Godhead, with emphasis on the Holy Spirit. The book has been republished this month by Peregrino Press.

“God is greater than femininity. God is boundless,” says Joan, “But God includes the feminine. The feminine nurtures, protects, accommodates herself to the needs of others. She nurses, heals, teaches, guides, consoles, inspires.”

Woman Image of the Holy Spirit, an exploration of the divine feminine in the holy texts. In her studies of the Hebrew Bible, as well as the Apocrypha, Joan discovered numerous instances of the feminine identified with the Holy Spirit.

“Jesus himself was incredibly radical with respect to his treatment of women,” says Joan. “He treated women as equal, even Mary Magdalene.”

A prolific writer, Joan is the author of several books on the subject of religion, including Jesus Was a Teenager and Elohim: A Search for a Symbol for Human Fulfillment.

“The fact that a person was created by God in the image and likeness of God, comes into the founding in our Declaration of Independence: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’”

Woman: Image of the Holy Spirit is available on Amazon