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Women in Christianity Women in Christianity Hans Küng "For two years Hans Kung 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 th… OL1319315W
Daughters of Abraham Daughters of Abraham Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,John L. Esposito "Important for a general audience interested in women and religion, this book will be especially valuable to scholars in the fields of feminist theology, comparative religion, and interfaith studies.… OL17775281W
Women in the church Women in the church Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting xxi, 515 pages : 22 cm OL19452574W
In our own voices In our own voices Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether Contains primary source documents. Until a quarter century ago little was known or acknowledged about the role American women played in the shaping of America's religious history. In Our Own Voices … OL19666034W
The Life of Saint Helia The Life of Saint Helia Virginia Burrus,Marco Conti The late medieval Latin "Vita Heliae" is a hagiography of the young woman Helia, set in what is now Albania. It largely concerns the Christian value of virginity, and depicts the saint debating with … OL20492551W
The Jesus movement The Jesus movement Ekkehard W. Stegemann,Wolfgang Stegemann "This work by two New Testament scholars is the first comprehensive social history of the earliest churches. Integrating the historical and social data, they locate the ancient Galileans, Judeans, an… OL20944065W
Weavings Weavings Johnson, Lydia D. Min "For the first time, women's theological reflections from South Pacific nations have been gathered together in a published volume. This historic achievement represents the collective vision, will, en… OL20947601W
Gospels Gospels Marinella Perroni,Mercedes Navarro Puerto "This first volume in the New Testament section of the Bible and Women series, devoted to the Synoptic Gospels and the Johannine literature, displays the fruits of collaboration of American and Weste… OL20974535W
Women in the Church Women in the Church Thomas R. Schreiner,Andreas J. Köstenberger,Theresa Bowen,Denny Burk,Tony Merida,Gloria Furman,Mary A. Kassian,Trillia Newbell,Robert W. Yarbrough,S. M. Baugh,Albert Wolters,Monica Brennan,Rosaria Butterfield The role of women in the church is highly debated, with Christians on all sides using Paul's teachings in 1 Timothy to justify their positions. Now in its third edition, this classic book edited by A… OL21177533W
Crispina and Her Sisters Crispina and Her Sisters Christine Schenk 1 online resource (xx, 459 pages) : OL21616368W
The Church's other half The Church's other half Trevor Beeson "Women have always constituted at least half of the church's membership, but for almost 2,000 years were excluded from any significant part in its leadership. After the example of Jesus, the earliest… OL22738523W
Fashioned to reign Fashioned to reign Kris Vallotton "Bethel pastor and bestselling author Kris Vallotton delivers a powerful, liberating teaching for women, revealing the special role and vital purpose God has for them"-- OL23296952W
Her story Her story Barbara J. Machaffe,Barbara J. MacHaffie Two works by MacHaffie are combined on this CD-ROM, with supplemental information and enhancements. OL23855084W
In our own voices In our own voices Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether A rich collection of first-person renderings that both enhances and challenges traditional narratives of American religious life. OL24833498W
The Lost Sisterhood The Lost Sisterhood Julia Ingram xiii, 182 pages ; 23 cm OL2652020W
Breaking through the stained glass ceiling Breaking through the stained glass ceiling HiRho Park,Susan Willhauck "Can women successfully pastor large membership churches? In 2006 at an international meeting of United Methodist clergywomen, this question was raised about how women were breaking gender stereotype… OL28173355W
God's self-confident daughters God's self-confident daughters Anne Jensen In this study, Anne Jensen provides an exhaustive account of the many roles that women played in the early church and their subsequent marginalization by the later church. This book is required readi… OL3269795W
Fragmentation and Redemption Fragmentation and Redemption Caroline Walker Bynum *Fragmentation and Redemption* is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very … OL3481003W
Harlots of the Desert Harlots of the Desert Benedicta Ward Stories of conversion have always attracted mankind's attention, and this was especially so among the monks of the ancient and medieval world. In the literature of fourth-century Egypt, alongside the… OL4122437W
Ungodly women Ungodly women Betty A. DeBerg As regards both academic historians and popular understandings since the rise of the Religious Right in the 1980s, analysis of American fundamentalism has neglected a large body of literature about g… OL4467089W
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