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 |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1998.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973028 |
Taula de continguts:
- Prophetic power and women's authority
- The early Christian Orans
- Maria Magdalena
- The prostitute-preacher
- The voice of the good women
- The right of women to give religious instruction in the thirteenth century
- Prophecy and song
- Proclaiming sanctity through proscribed acts
- Women's sermons at the end of the Middle Ages
- Feminine exemplars for reform
- Preaching or teaching?
- A voice for themselves
- In a female voice
- Spirituality and/as ideology in Black women's literature
- A chaste and fervid eloquence
- Prophetess of the spirits
- Transforming the pulpit.