Women Preaching Revolution

Women Preaching Revolution
Author: Elaine J. Lawless
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2015-08-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1512803820

Do women preach differently than men? In Women Preaching Revolution Elaine J. Lawless contends that they do. Drawing on her study of more than 150 sermons and extensive interviews with the clergywomen who preached them, Lawless argues that women have changed traditional preaching in ways that reflect their socialization as women and their experiences of being female in America. Many of the women in her study were expected to take courses on the art of preaching as part of their seminary training. Most of them rejected the sermon structure and strategies they were taught in seminary, viewing them as part of a "male" homiletic tradition, and developed styles that celebrate their commitment to connection, relationship, and dialogue.

Strangers and Pilgrims

Strangers and Pilgrims
Author: Catherine A. Brekus
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807866547

Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth," an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844--these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Brekus examines the lives of more than a hundred female preachers--both white and African American--who crisscrossed the country between 1740 and 1845. Outspoken, visionary, and sometimes contentious, these women stepped into the pulpit long before twentieth-century battles over female ordination began. They were charismatic, popular preachers, who spoke to hundreds and even thousands of people at camp and revival meetings, and yet with but a few notable exceptions--such as Sojourner Truth--these women have essentially vanished from our history. Recovering their stories, Brekus shows, forces us to rethink many of our common assumptions about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture.

Grace Revolution

Grace Revolution
Author: Joseph Prince
Publisher: FaithWords
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1455561312

From New York Times bestselling author Joseph Prince comes a book about living above defeat and experiencing breakthroughs in every area of life. GRACE REVOLUTION is about living above defeat and experiencing lasting breakthroughs in every area of life. It's about the explosive, inside-out transformation that occurs in the innermost sanctum of the human heart when a person meets Jesus personally. To help the reader live out this new perspective, the author gives five practical and powerful keys that, if understood and internalized, will become highly effective principles of success and living a victorious life.

Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity

Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity
Author: Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520919270

For nearly two millennia, 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 twentieth 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 communities; a few were even recognized by the church hierarchy. With its lively accounts of women preachers and prophets in the Christian tradition, this exceptionally well-documented collection will interest scholars and general readers alike.

The Resolution for Women

The Resolution for Women
Author: Priscilla Shirer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433674017

Presents resolutions for Christian women, identifying important characteristics for success in faith, family, and growth, and provides biblical references and advice on achieving these personal standards.

Reclaiming Eve

Reclaiming Eve
Author: Suzanne Burden
Publisher: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780834132269

Every daughter of Eve faces an identity crisis at some time in her life. And many of us wonder where we fit in on a regular basis. Whether you feel discouraged and damaged or desire a greater understanding of your spiritual condition, this book will help you embrace your identity as one reclaimed by Jesus Christ.

Subverted

Subverted
Author: Sue Ellen Browder
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681496658

Contraception and abortion were not originally part of the 1960s women's movement. How did the women's movement, which fought for equal opportunity for women in education and the workplace, and the sexual revolution, which reduced women to ambitious sex objects, become so united? In Subverted, Sue Ellen Browder documents for the first time how it all happened, in her own life and in the life of an entire country. Trained at the University of Missouri School of Journalism to be an investigative journalist, Browder unwittingly betrayed her true calling and became a propagandist for sexual liberation. As a long-time freelance writer for Cosmopolitan magazine, she wrote pieces meant to soft-sell unmarried sex, contraception, and abortion as the single woman's path to personal fulfillment. She did not realize until much later that propagandists higher and cleverer than herself were influencing her thinking and her personal choices as they subverted the women's movement. The thirst for truth, integrity, and justice for women that led Browder into journalism in the first place eventually led her to find forgiveness and freedom in the place she least expected to find them. Her in- depth research, her probing analysis, and her honest self-reflection set the record straight and illumine a way forward for others who have suffered from the unholy alliance between the women's movement and the sexual revolution.

A Company of Women Preachers

A Company of Women Preachers
Author: Curtis W. Freeman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Baptist women
ISBN: 9781602583184

Writings by Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Katherine Sutton, Anna Trapnel, Jane Turner, Anne Wentworth, and Sarah Wight.

The Confident Woman

The Confident Woman
Author: Joyce Meyer
Publisher: FaithWords
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0759568375

What keeps women from being their best? Joyce has been helping women better themselves by helping identify emotional barriers and physical, mental, and spiritual obstacles in their lives for years. Now she provides another answer-confidence. Our society has an insecurity epidemic, women in particular. Compensating by pretending to be secure-a common response-only leads to feelings of shame. Lack of self-confidence causes great difficulty in relationships of all kinds, and in marriage instances can even lead to divorce. In THE CONFIDENT WOMAN, Joyce explores the seven characteristics of a woman with confidence, which include a woman who knows she is loved, who refuses to live in fear, and who does not live by comparisons. Joyce explains that confidence stems from being positive in your actions and living honestly, but most importantly from having faith, in God and in ourselves.

Daughters of Light

Daughters of Light
Author: Rebecca Larson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780807848975

More than a thousand Quaker female ministers were active in the Anglo-American world before the Revolutionary War, when the Society of Friends constituted the colonies' third-largest religious group. Some of these women circulated throughout British North