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Women Preachers And Prophets Through Two Millennia Of Christianity

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by Beverly Mayne Kienzle Mayne Kienzle

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Beverly Mayne Kienzle Mayne Kienzle
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
University Of California Press
Published
April 1998

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For nearly two millenia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by an international group of scholars from several disciplines, investigates the diverse voices of Christian women who claimed the authority to preach and prophesy. The contributors examine the centuries of arguments, grounded in Pauline injunctions, against women's public speech and the different ways women from the early years of the church through the 20th century have nonetheless exercised religious leadership in their communities. Some of them based their authority solely on divine inspiration; others were authorized by independent-minded communitites; a few were even recognized by the church heirarchy.