Susanne Guenther Loewen skilfully draws on the shared power of feminist and Anabaptist/Mennonite theologies to find a creative way forward for theologies of the cross, beyond narratives of redemptive violence and redemptive suffering. Attentive to scripture, to experience and to a multifaceted tradition, this book brings a fresh and distinctive peace-church perspective to perennial theological debates.

Rachel Muers, University of Edinburgh, UK

This book is a powerful and stunning contribution to a decades-long conversation that remains peripheral to the institutional life of our tradition: how women's experience as parents, professional theologians, and everything in between makes peace theology a discourse capable of transforming the world. Loewen's insight and econstruction of Gelassenheit as cooperation with God for the sake of redemptive compassion is what we need in the 21st-century to raise and nurture those who will become the elders of the 22nd century.

Malinda Elizabeth Berry, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, USA