Author: Bela Bates EDWARDSPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
An Address delivered at the fourth anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, South Hadley, Mass., etc
Author: Bela Bates EDWARDSMount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Anniversary addresses
Author: Catalogue of Books Written by the Alumni and Officers of the College of New Jersey, Now in the Library
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: John Calvin and John Wesley
Author: Samuel Ware FisherPublisher:
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Category : Baccalaureate addresses
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Cultivation of the Taste, An Address Delivered at the ... Anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, South Hadley, Mass
Author: William Chauncy FOWLERPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Library Bulletin
Author: Somerville Public Library (Mass.).Publisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
America Annuals of Education. V. 1-4, Jan. 18260-Dec. 1829; New Ser., V. 1, No. 1-5, Jan.-July 1830; 3d Ser., V.1-9, Aug. 1830-Dec. 1839
Author: William RussellPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
American Women in Mission
Author: Dana Lee RobertPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865545496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph Died, given over to hospitality, to that of the spinster in her unstylish dress and wire-rimmed glasses, alone somewhere for thirty years teaching heathen children. Like all caricatures, those of the exhausted wife and frustrated old maid carry some truth: the underlying message of the sterotypes is that missionary women were perceived as marginal to the central tasks of mission. Rather than being remembered for preaching the gospel, the quintessential male task, missionary women were noted for meeting human needs and helping others, sacrificing themselves without plan or reason, all for the sake of bringing the world to Jesus Christ.Historical evidence, however, gives lie to the truism that women missionaries were and are doers but not thinkers, reactive secondary figures rather than proactive primary ones. The first American women to serve as foreign missionaries in 1812 were among the best-educated women of their time. Although barred from obtaining the college education or ministerial credentials of their husbands, the early missionary wives had read their Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins. Not only did they go abroad with particular theologies to share, but their identities as women caused them to develop gender-based mission theories. Early nineteenth-century women seldom wrote theologies of mission, but they wrote letters and kept journals that reveal a thought world and set of assumptions about women's roles in the missionary task. The activities of missionary wives were not random: they were part of a mission strategy that gave women a particular role inthe advancement of the reign of God.By moving from mission field to mission field in chronological order of missionary presence, Robert charts missiological developments as they took place in dialogue with the urgent context of the day. Each case study marks the beginning of the mission theory. Baptist women in Burma, for example, are only considered in their first decades there and are not traced into the present. Robert believes that at this early stage of research into women's mission theory, integrity and analysis lies more in a succession of contextualized case studies than in gross generalizations.