The Flesh and the Feminine

The Flesh and the Feminine
Author: Ruth Gouldbourne
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2007-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1556351283

During the sixteenth-century reformations, Caspar Schwenckfeld was one of the mavericks and creative thinkers who made up the amorphous grouping of radicals. At the time, and since, much has been made of the number of women who were attracted to his theology. Various reasons for this have been suggested, ranging from the attractions of a well spoken nobleman through to the pull of a more domestic religion. This study argues that the attraction lay in the theology that Schwenckfeld explored and offered, and the ways in which it destabilized the accepted social and biological definitions of gender identity.

Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers

Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers
Author: George H. Williams
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1957
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

An important volume of scholarship, this book presents a collection of documents previously little known and inaccessible to the English-speaking world. This volume includes writings of the Radical Reformation--Anabaptist and Spiritualist--as well as three treatises by Juan de Valdes as a representative of Evangelical Catholicism. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.