Author: Lynn H. Cohick Publisher: Baker Academic ISBN: 1493410210 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 327
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From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins and mothers--influenced the shape of the church in its formative centuries. This book provides in a single volume a nearly complete compendium of extant evidence about Christian women in the second through fifth centuries. It highlights the social and theological contributions they made to shaping early Christian beliefs and practices, integrating their influence into the history of the patristic church and showing how their achievements can be edifying for contemporary Christians.
Author: Michelle DeRusha Publisher: Baker Books ISBN: 1441220623 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 428
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Throughout history, countless women have boldly stepped out in faith and courage, leaving their indelible mark on those around them and on the kingdom of God. In lively prose Michelle DeRusha tells their stories, bringing into focus fifty incredible heroines of the faith. From Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Anne Hutchison to Susanna Wesley, Harriet Tubman, and Corrie ten Boom, women both famous and admirable live again under DeRusha's expert pen. These engaging narratives are a potent reminder to readers that we are not alone, the battles we face today are not new, and God is always with us in the midst of the struggle.
Author: Edith Deen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Christian biography Languages : en Pages : 456
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Biographies of over a hundred great Christian women throughout the ages, being a companion volume to the author's previous "All the women of the Bible."
Author: Lynn Cohick Publisher: Baker Academic ISBN: 1441207996 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.
Author: Helen Kooiman Hosier Publisher: Revell ISBN: 9780800757281 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 388
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From Elizabeth Dole to Mary Kay, from Fanny Crosby to Annie Dillard, here is a century of women who made a difference. Great family reading.
Author: Julie Ingersoll Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814737692 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 191
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Evangelical Christian Women draws on two years of ethnographic research nationwide to shed new light on the gender conflict faced by women in evangelical Christianity.
Author: Ally Kateusz Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030111113 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 305
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church depict women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy inside two of the most important churches in Christendom—Old Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz’s research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy.
Author: Carolinne White Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141943378 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 335
Book Description
'Perpetua shouted out with joy as the sword pierced her, for she wanted to taste some of the pain and she even guided the hesitant hand of the trainee gladiator towards her own throat' Lives of Roman Christian Women is a unique collection of letters and documents from the third to the fifth centuries, celebrating Christian women from across the Roman Empire. During a crucial period in which Christianity transformed from a persecuted faith to the official religion of the Empire, these writings reveal the women who chose to dedicate their lives to Christ, by embracing martyrdom or by adopting a life of poverty and prayer, renouncing not only wealth but also their duties as wives and mothers.
Author: Diana Lynn Severance Publisher: Focus for Women ISBN: 9781845506407 Category : Women in Christianity Languages : en Pages : 0
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From commoner to queen, the women in this book embraced the freedom and the power of the Gospel in making their unique contributions to the unfolding of history. Wherever possible, the women here speak for themselves, from their letters, diaries or published works. The true story of women in Christian history inspires, challenges and demonstrates the grace of God producing much fruit throughout time.
Author: Lynn H. Cohick
Author: Michelle DeRusha
Author: Edith Deen
Author: Lynn Cohick
Author: Catherine MacKenzie
Author: Helen Kooiman Hosier
Author: Julie Ingersoll
Author: Ally Kateusz
Author: Carolinne White
Author: Diana Lynn Severance