Dr. Constance Gerlings - de ontwikkeling van een gee͏̈ngageerd theologe
Freda Dröes, whose dissertation is based upon her research into the theological enterprise of the first generation of Dutch women post-graduate theologians, examines in her contribution the development in the work of Constance Gerlings (1875-1942). Gerlings was not only the first Dutch woman to rece...
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| Language: | Dutch |
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1993
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Proeven van vrouwenstudies theologie ; deel III:
Year: 1993, Pages: 97-166 |
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| Summary: | Freda Dröes, whose dissertation is based upon her research into the theological enterprise of the first generation of Dutch women post-graduate theologians, examines in her contribution the development in the work of Constance Gerlings (1875-1942). Gerlings was not only the first Dutch woman to receive a doctorate in theology, hut also her dissertation may be considered the first feminist theological thesis. This study entitled, 'The Woman in Early Christian Congregational Life' (1913), was explicitly connected to the struggle for women's ordination within the Dutch Reformed Church. Gerlings was life-long active in this campaign and her name was connected by her contemporaries and later generations with that struggle. Does it then follow that her dissertation should be characterized as 'feminist propaganda' and its contents reduced to the question of women in the Christian Ministry? Dröes demonstrates that the dissertation bas more to offer. Once placed within its own historical theological context and then brought into a relation to the contemporary critical feminist reconstruction of early Christianity by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, surprising continuity is revealed. According to Dröes, from this perspective Gerlings' research can be read as engaged scholarly theology with a renewing power which throws light bath upon the history of (Christian) women and upon the (pre)history of Women's Studies Theology. |
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| Item Description: | Bibliografie Dr. A.C.E Gerlings: Seite 165-166 Literaturangaben |
| ISBN: | 9021170078 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Proeven van vrouwenstudies theologie ; deel III:
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15496/publikation-58740 HDL: 10900/117365 |