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| Author | : Rebecca Jones |
| Publisher | : B&H Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Women |
| ISBN | : 9780805430912 |
A provocative look at how the Bible should define the identity of a woman and her choices about femininity.
| Author | : Ute E. Eisen |
| Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780814659502 |
Here Ute E. Eisen provides a scholarly investigation of the evidence that women held offices of authority in the first centuries of Christianity. Topics include apostles, prophets, theological teachers, presbyters, enrolled widows, deacons, bishops, and oikonomae. The book concludes with a chapter on "source-oriented perspectives for a history of Christian women in official positions."
| Author | : Julie Ingersoll |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2003-12-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0814737749 |
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. Julie Ingersoll goes beyond previous attempts to find avenues of empowerment for fundamentalist women to offer a more nuanced look at the challenges they face when they occupy positions of leadership which violate traditional gender norms. She looks where other studies do not—at women who, while remaining entrenched in and committed to evangelical Christianity, are also resisting accepted gender roles. Evangelical Christian Women offers a look at conservative women who challenge gender norms within their religious traditions, the fallout they experience as part of the ensuing conflict, and the significance of the conflict over gender for the development and character of culture. In the face of a growing number of scholarly studies of conservative religious women that argue that submission is somehow “really” empowerment, this book seeks to get at the other side of the story; to document and explore the experiences of the women caught in the middle of the conservative Christian culture war over gender.
| Author | : Patricia Cox Miller |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813214173 |
What emerges from these texts is a colorful portrayal of the many faces of ancient Christian women in their roles as teachers, prophets, martyrs, widows, deaconesses, ascetics, virgins, wives, and mothers.
| Author | : Hans Küng |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2010-07-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441102639 |
For two years Küng guided a research project on Women and Christianity, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. For most of the religions of the world, women are a problem. From time immemorial they have been subordinate to men, second class in the family, politics and business with limited rights and even limited participation in worship. It is not only in Christianity that equal rights for women has been a scandalously neglected issue. By an examination of the history of women in Christianity, Kung points to the scandals of the past. The prohibition of women servers at Mass and of the ordination of women to the diaconate and the priesthood are symptomatic of a male dominated Church, which takes a consistently 'negative' attitude towards contraception, abortion and divorce. Roman Catholic Canon Law is androcentric and male dominated. From his position of intellectual freedom, as an independent Professor at the University of Tubingen, Küng is free to analyse the mistakes of the past and to sketch out a new theology of Women in the Church. This is not stridently feminist but sees the role of women as being vital for the development of the Church as an institution and for preaching the Christian Gospel.
| Author | : Lynn Cohick |
| Publisher | : Baker Academic |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2009-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441207996 |
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 | : Hans Küng |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780826456861 |
From a celebrated Christian theologian comes an important new book on a burning issue of the day. In this examination of the history of women in Christianity, Kng points to the scandals of the past and sketches a new theology of women in the Church.
| Author | : Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 541 |
| Release | : 2009-12-22 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
This work explores the impact of Christian women—as scholars and leaders representing the ethnic, national, racial, and denominational diversity of Christianity today—on all aspects of life. Women and Christianity explores the experiences of women and how their daily lives interface with their spirituality and faith. Beginning with a historical overview, the book presents essays grouped under five broad headings: women, family, and environment; socioeconomics, politics, and authority; body, mind, and spirit; sex, power, and vulnerability; and women, world view, and religious practice. These essays focus on multiple aspects of women's experiences and contemporary Christian realities, involving the interrelatedness of faith, thought, and activism across many strata of global society. They wrestle with the daily experiences and challenges women face integrating their lives as women of faith—as they are advocates, experience agency, and work for mutuality. It shows how in all these roles, women must negotiate power, injustice, and the impact of sexism as they work within systemic oppression amid a patriarchal system, nevertheless championing change and refusing to be severely compromised.
| Author | : Joan E. Taylor |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2021-02-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0198867069 |
This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Featuring contributors from key thinkers in the fields of Christian history, it considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE.
| Author | : Ben Witherington (III) |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 1990-06-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780521367356 |
This book presents in as clear a way as possible the New Testament material dealing with women and their roles in the context of the movement Jesus began. Dr Witherington begins by illustrating the roles of women in Judaism, in the Hellenistic world, and in the Roman Empire. She goes on to show how Jesus broke significantly with convention in the way he viewed women and their roles, offering as he did a wholly new conception of the legitimate rights of women in society. An analysis follows of the apostle Paul's attitude toward women, which shows how he agreed with and differed from the ideas of his contemporaries. The concluding chapters discuss the evangelists, whose selection and presentation of material with respect to women casts much light on the early Church's understanding of women and their roles. This comprehensive survey, which avoids slanting its material to serve a modern patriarchal or feminist bias, comes to the exciting conclusion that we can see in the New Testament an attempt to reform the patriarchal orientation of the day.
