Convinced Episode 15: Abigail Favale's Catholic Conversion Story

Abigail Favale grew up a conservative evangelical, but became enamored with feminist theory in college. The something strange happened. This is the story of how she became Catholic.

00:00 Start
01:43 Purity Culture and the Draw of Feminism
05:02 Feminism Becomes a Barrier to Faith
09:04 The Revisionist Phase
12:31 The Eucharist
20:01 The Weird Part of the Story
25:25 On Contemporary Gender Theory
36:41 The Catholic Advantage

Abigail Favale is a professor in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. She has an academic background in gender studies and feminist literary criticism, and now writes and teaches on topics related to women and gender from a Catholic perspective. She is the author of The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, as well as her conversion memoir, Into The Deep. Find out more at https://abigailfavale.wixsite.com/home

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