God's Self-confident Daughters: Early Christianity and the Liberation of Women

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Westminster John Knox Press, 1 de gen. 1996 - 347 pàgines

In this study, Anne Jensen provides an exhaustive account of the many roles that women played in the early church (confessors, martyrs, prophetesses, and teachers) and their subsequent marginalization by the later church. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the history of the church and its impact on the lives of women throughout the ages.

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Continguts

WOMEN IN THE CHURCH HISTORIES
1
Women as a Qualified Minority
3
The WidowMinister or Poor Woman?
22
f Veneration of Women
29
Progress or Regress?
58
The Double Martyrdom
84
A Theological Analysis
100
Martyrdom and Representation of Christ
111
Prisca and Maximilla
133
57
135
The Eucharist of a Prophetess
182
REDEMPTION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE
189
EPILOGUE
226
Appendixes
236
Women in the Churh Histories
245
Map Chronology
256

The Dispute over Representation of Christ
119
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120
WOMEN IN PROCLAMATION
125
26
129
Bibliography
312
Index
342
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Sobre l'autor (1996)

Anne Jensen is a member of the Catholic theological faculty of Eberhard-Karls University, Tubingen, and the Institute for Ecumenical Research.

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