Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity /
For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1998.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973028 |
| Summary: | For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by an international group of scholars from several disciplines, investigates the diverse voices of Christian women who claimed the authority to preach and prophesy. The contributors examine the centuries of arguments, grounded in Pauline injunctions, against women's public speech and the different ways women from the early years of the church through the twentieth century have nonetheless exercised religious leadership in their communities. Some of them based their authority solely on divine inspiration; others were authorized by independent-minded communities; a few were even recognized by the church hierarchy. With its lively accounts of women preachers and prophets in the Christian tradition, this exceptionally well-documented collection will interest scholars and general readers alike. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520919273 0520919270 0585055017 9780585055015 9780520209220 0520209222 0520209214 9780520209213 |