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Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity Book

Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity
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 , Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity has a rating of 4 stars
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  • Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity
  • Written by author Beverly Mayne Kienzle
  • Published by University of California Press, April 1998
  • 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
  • "This book presents dramatic, convincing evidence that the tradition of women's preaching extends back to the beginnings of Christianity. . . . It will be an inspiration to all who suffer from the legacy of constraints on female speech."—Carole Slade
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Preface: Authority and Definition
Introduction: The Issue of Blood - Reinstating Women into the Tradition1
Pt. 1Early Christianity
1Prophetic Power and Women's Authority: The Case of the Gospel of Mary (Magdalene)21
2The Early Christian Orans: An Artistic Representation of Women's Liturgical Prayer and Prophecy42
3Maria Magdalena: Apostolorum Apostola57
Pt. 2The Middle Ages
4The Prostitute-Preacher: Patterns of Polemic against Medieval Waldensian Women Preachers99
5The Voice of the Good Women: An Essay on the Pastoral and Sacerdotal Role of Women in the Cathar Church114
6The Right of Women to Give Religious Instruction in the Thirteenth Century134
7Prophecy and Song: Teaching and Preaching by Medieval Women146
8Proclaiming Sanctity through Proscribed Acts: The Case of Rose of Viterbo159
9Women's Sermons at the End of the Middle Ages: Texts from the Blessed and Images of the Saints173
Pt. 3Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries
10Feminine Exemplars for Reform: Women's Voices in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments199
11Preaching or Teaching?: Defining the Ursuline Mission in Seventeenth-Century France212
12A Voice for Themselves: Women as Participants in Congregational Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Movement227
13In a Female Voice: Preaching and Politics in Eighteenth-Century British Quakerism248
Pt. 4Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
14Spirituality and/as Ideology in Black Women's Literature: The Preaching of Maria W. Stewart and Baby Suggs, Holy267
15A Chaste and Fervid Eloquence: Catherine Booth and the Ministry of Women in the Salvation Army288
16Prophetess of the Spirits: Mother Leaf Anderson and the Black Spiritual Churches of New Orleans303
17Transforming the Pulpit: Preaching and Prophecy in the British Women's Suffrage Movement318
Afterword: Voices of the Spirit - Exercising Power, Embracing Responsibility335
Contributors345
Index349


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