Author: Cheryl Naumann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758658111
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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In the Footsteps of Phoebe: A Complete History of the Deaconess Movement in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

Author: Cheryl D. Naumann
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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This book presents a rich and insightful look at the deaconess vocation and its blessing to the LCMS. Utilizing primary sources to document the inspiring story of the deaconess movement within the LCMS, it fills a significant gap in the annals of synodical history. Collected in this one volume is a record of events as well as the thoughts and actions of deaconesses during every era of the Synod's history.

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Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451494297
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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The story of Lutherans in America is one of mutual influence. From the first small groups of Lutherans to arrive in the colonies, to the large immigrations to the rich heartland of a growing nation, Lutherans have influenced, and been influenced by, America. In this lively and engaging new history, Granquist brings to light not only the varied and fascinating institutions that Lutherans founded and sustained but the people that lived within them. The result is a generous, human history that tells a complete story—not only about politics and policies but also the piety and the practical experiences of the Lutheran men and women who lived and worked in the American context. Bringing the story all the way to the present day and complemented with new charts, maps, images, and sidebars, Granquist ably covers the full range of Lutheran expressions, bringing order and clarity to a complex and vibrant tradition.

Author: Jenny Wiley Legath
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147984652X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States In the late nineteenth century, a new movement arose within American Protestant Christianity. Unsalaried groups of women began living together, wearing plain dress, and performing nursing, teaching, and other works of welfare. Modeled after the lifestyles of Catholic nuns, these women became America’s first deaconesses. Sanctified Sisters,the first history of the deaconess movement in the United States, traces its origins in the late nineteenth century through to its present manifestations. Drawing on archival research, demographic surveys, and material culture evidence, Jenny Wiley Legath offers new insights into who the deaconesses were, how they lived, and what their legacy has been for women in Protestant Christianity. The book argues that the deaconess movement enabled Protestant women—particularly single women—to gain power in a male-dominated Protestant world. They created hundreds of new institutions within Protestantism and created new roles for women within the church. While some who study women’s ordination draw a line from the deaconesses’ work to the struggle for women’s ordination in various branches of Protestant Christianity, Legath argues that most deaconesses were not interested in ordination. Yet, while they didn’t mean to, they did end up providing a foundation for today’s ordination debates. Their very existence worked to open the possibility of ecclesiastically authorized women’s agency.

Author: David E. Settje
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479803146
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Highlights Watergate as a critical turning point in Christian engagement in US politics The Watergate scandal was one of the most infamous events in American democratic history. Faith in the government plummeted, leaving the nation feeling betrayed and unsure who could be trusted anymore. In Evil Deeds in High Places, David E. Settje examines how Christian institutions reacted to this moral and ethical collapse, and the ways in which they chose to assert their moral authority. Settje argues that Watergate was a turning point for spurring Christian engagement with politics. While American Christians had certainly already been active in the public sphere, these events motivated a more urgent engagement in response, and served to pave the way for conservatives to push more fully into political power. Historians have carefully analyzed the judicial, media, congressional, and presidential actions surrounding Watergate, but there has been very little consideration of popular reactions of Americans across the political spectrum. Though this book does not aspire to offer a comprehensive picture of America’s citizenry, by examining the variety of Protestant Christian experiences—those more conservative, those more liberal, and those in between—and by incorporating analyses of both white and black Christian reactions, it captures a significant swath of the American population at the time, providing one of the only studies to examine how everyday Americans viewed the events of Watergate. Grasping the dynamics of Christian responses to Watergate enables us to comprehend more completely that volatile moment in US history, and provides important context to make sense of reactions to our more recent political turmoil.

Author: Lucy Rider Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deaconesses
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Christian Golder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church work with the sick
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Jennifer Anne Wiley Legath
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780549513674
Category : Deaconesses
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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This dissertation analyzes the paradoxical group of women called deaconesses. Deaconesses invoked common Protestant American assumptions as they defined their vocation, and studying deaconesses uncovers much about the culture in which they lived. But in their work and especially in their unique lifestyle, deaconesses stood apart from mainstream culture in important and revealing ways. Examining deaconesses complicates traditional narratives of American religious history and challenges the facile reduction of women's religious history to the quest for ordination or ecclesiastical equality.

Author: Christian Golder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375529389
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: Jason Biette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615933764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Who was Phoebe, the "sister" Paul mentions in his epistle? Was she a deaconess? What is a deaconess? This book surveys the Old and New Testaments and church history in search of the answers to these questions and others that arise in the debate over women in ministry in the modern Christian church.