Dallas Public Library

Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity, edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity

electronic resource

bibliographystandards specifications

1045760

edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker

Prophetic power and women's authority -- The early Christian Orans -- Maria Magdalena -- The prostitute-preacher -- The voice of the good women -- The right of women to give religious instruction in the thirteenth century -- Prophecy and song -- Proclaiming sanctity through proscribed acts -- Women's sermons at the end of the Middle Ages -- Feminine exemplars for reform -- Preaching or teaching? -- A voice for themselves -- In a female voice -- Spirituality and/as ideology in Black women's literature -- A chaste and fervid eloquence -- Prophetess of the spirits -- Transforming the pulpit