Without Benefit of Clergy

Without Benefit of Clergy
Author: Karin E. Gedge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2003-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198029861

The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship--found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship--was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this thesis by examining the pastoral relationship from the perspective of the minister, the female parishioner, and the larger culture. The question that troubled religious women seeking counsel, says Gedge, was: would their minister respect them, help them, honor them? Surprisingly, she finds, the answer was frequently negative. Gedge supports her conclusion with evidence from a wide range of previously untapped primary sources including pastoral manuals, seminary students' and pastors' journals, women's diaries and letters, pamphlets, sentimental and sensational novels, and The Scarlet Letter.

Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Rev. J. H. Fairchild

Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Rev. J. H. Fairchild
Author: Joy Hamlet Fairchild
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2018-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780484625111

Excerpt from Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Rev. J. H. Fairchild: Pastor of Payson Church, South Boston Ix issuing this second edition (the first edition of one thousand being exhausted), I would express my thanks to those friends and patrons who have purchased the work, and to the manv editors of different publications who have recommended it to the careful peru sal of their numerous readers. And I would here say that the notices of the press have given me peculiar satisfaction, many extracts from which will be found in the Appendix. All the notices, so far as they have come under my eye, have been favorable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.