Her Story: Women in Christian TraditionAn accessible, introductory text first published by Fortress Press in 1983, Her Story: Women in Christian History has sold over 30,000 copies of the first edition and has ably helped readers recover the oft-ignored or submerged stories of women in the Christian tradition, from biblical times to now. Barbara MacHaffie, who wrote the brief history and compiled a lively anthology of companion primary readings, has revised and updated the text and readings. In this new edition, history and primary readings are combined and augmented with helpful pedagogical tools. This new textbook, which offers sympathetic coverage of all Christian traditions, is supported by a dedicated companion Web site that includes chapter summaries, questions for discussion and Web links that vividly bring the stories of women to life in portraits, artifacts, and other primary materials. |
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... history . " -ROBERT T. HANDY UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY " The best collection of primary texts about women in Christianity available . " -BETTY A. DEBERG UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA HER STORY A pioneering text and anthology , newly ...
... history . " -ROBERT T. HANDY UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY " The best collection of primary texts about women in Christianity available . " -BETTY A. DEBERG UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA HER STORY A pioneering text and anthology , newly ...
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... History . 2. Women in Christianity — United States — History . I. Title . BV639.W7M24 2006 270.082 — dc22 2005032802 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information ...
... History . 2. Women in Christianity — United States — History . I. Title . BV639.W7M24 2006 270.082 — dc22 2005032802 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information ...
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... History I The Prominence of Women in the Earliest Churches 3 Ministries of Women in the Early Churches 9 Creating a Patriarchal Church 14 Widows 17 Female Deacons 18 Women outside the Orthodox Mainstream 20 Patristic Attitudes toward ...
... History I The Prominence of Women in the Earliest Churches 3 Ministries of Women in the Early Churches 9 Creating a Patriarchal Church 14 Widows 17 Female Deacons 18 Women outside the Orthodox Mainstream 20 Patristic Attitudes toward ...
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... History " ) 225 / 6.5 Women Re - Vision the Bible ( Elizabeth Cady Stanton , ed . , The Woman's Bible ) 227 7. AMERICAN WOMEN IN CATHOLICISM AND SECTARIANISM 233 The History of Women in American Catholicism 233 American Women in ...
... History " ) 225 / 6.5 Women Re - Vision the Bible ( Elizabeth Cady Stanton , ed . , The Woman's Bible ) 227 7. AMERICAN WOMEN IN CATHOLICISM AND SECTARIANISM 233 The History of Women in American Catholicism 233 American Women in ...
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... ( Jacquelyn Grant , " Womanist Theology " ) 341 Acknowledgments 345 Notes 347 Suggestions for Further Reading 357 Index of Names and Subjects 381 INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION B ooks surveying the history X CONTENTS.
... ( Jacquelyn Grant , " Womanist Theology " ) 341 Acknowledgments 345 Notes 347 Suggestions for Further Reading 357 Index of Names and Subjects 381 INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION B ooks surveying the history X CONTENTS.
Contents
Readings for Chapter 5 | 177 |
52 THE CAUSE OF MORAL REFORM | 179 |
53 EQUAL RIGHTS AND MORAL DUTIES | 181 |
54 MISSIONARY WOMEN STEP BEYOND THEIR SPHERE | 186 |
NINETEENTHCENTURY PREACHERS AND SCHOLARS | 193 |
The Debate over Women Preaching | 200 |
Ordination to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament | 202 |
The Deaconess Movement | 204 |
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14 EGERIA IN THE HOLY LAND | 41 |
15 THE ACTS OF PAUL AND THECLA | 43 |
VIRGIN AND WITCH WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY | 47 |
The Life of Virginity and Chastity | 48 |
Medieval Mariology | 59 |
Woman as Witch | 63 |
Medieval Women Challenge and Protest | 66 |
Readings for Chapter 2 | 73 |
22 HUNTING FOR WITCHES | 76 |
23 MARGERY KEMPE | 80 |
24 JESUS AS MOTHER | 82 |
25 PERSUADING A POPE | 84 |
WOMEN IN AN ERA OF REFORMATION | 87 |
Catholic Women in an Era of Reform | 94 |
Protestant Women Active in Reform | 96 |
Protestant Women outside the Mainstream | 99 |
Lasting Effects | 105 |
Readings for Chapter 3 | 106 |
32 CALVIN ON THE CREATION OF WOMAN | 109 |
33 CATHOLIC WOMEN IN GENEVA | 112 |
34 WOMEN IN DEFENSE OF THE REFORMATION | 117 |
35 MARRIAGE AND ADULTERY AMONG THE HUTTERITES | 119 |
WOMEN AND CHRISTIANITY IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES | 123 |
Anne Hutchinson the American Jezebel | 129 |
The Revival Tradition | 133 |
Quaker Women | 139 |
Readings for Chapter 4 | 144 |
42 ANNE HUTCHINSON | 145 |
43 THE UNFEMININE ACTIVITIES OF SARAH OSBORN | 150 |
44 QUAKER WOMEN MAY SPEAK | 154 |
WOMEN ORGANIZING FOR MISSION AND REFORM | 157 |
Organizing for Charity and Reform | 162 |
The Social Gospel | 167 |
Fundamentalism | 168 |
Women in Mission | 169 |
Legacy of the Voluntary Societies | 174 |
The Womans Bible | 205 |
Readings for Chapter 6 | 210 |
62 THE ARGUMENT FROM PENTECOST | 213 |
63 AMANDA SMITHS CALL TO PREACH | 216 |
64 PAUL PROHIBITS THE PREACHING OF WOMEN | 223 |
65 WOMEN REVISION THE BIBLE | 225 |
AMERICAN WOMEN IN CATHOLICISM AND SECTARIANISM | 231 |
American Women in Religious Orders | 235 |
Women and Sectarian Christianity | 239 |
Readings for Chapter 7 | 249 |
72 CATHOLIC SISTERS AS CIVIL WAR NURSES | 254 |
73 COMPLEX MARRIAGE IN THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY | 260 |
74 THE EXPERIENCE OF POLYGAMY | 264 |
75 SHAKER WOMEN IN COMMUNITY | 266 |
THE MOVE TOWARD FULL PARTICIPATION | 271 |
The Expansion of Denominational Roles | 272 |
Signs of Retrenchment | 274 |
Postwar Changes | 276 |
A New Agenda for Women | 278 |
Readings for Chapter 8 | 282 |
THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE CHURCHES | 287 |
83 RAISING THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF BAPTIST WOMEN | 294 |
84 THE PATRIARCHAL CHURCH | 297 |
AGENTS OF TRANSFORMATION | 303 |
The Ministries of Deaconess and Nun | 310 |
Feminist Approaches to the Bible | 312 |
Theological Education | 315 |
Worship | 317 |
The Need for Feminist Theologies | 321 |
What Comes Next? | 326 |
Readings for Chapter 9 | 329 |
92 INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE FOR WORSHIP | 331 |
93 FEMINIST LITURGY | 332 |
94 FEMINIST VIEWS OF SIN AND SALVATION | 335 |
95 JESUS IN WOMANIST THEOLOGY | 339 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 343 |
NOTES | 345 |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | 355 |
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS | 379 |
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Page 186 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 212 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Page 157 - And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
Page 37 - You are the devil's gateway: you are the unsealer of that (forbidden) tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law: you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God's image, man. On account of your desert — that is, death — even the Son of God had to die.
Page 157 - It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
Page 120 - Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Page 217 - And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake ? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them ! And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Page 212 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 186 - And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Page 217 - I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.