Women in the Story of Jesus: The Gospels through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on References and Editors' Additions -- Introduction -- PART 1 HEART AND HANDS: WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY -- 1. Mary: The Exemplary Disciple -- Clara Lucas Balfour: Humility: The Noblest Virtue -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps:...
| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on References and Editors' Additions -- Introduction -- PART 1 HEART AND HANDS: WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY -- 1. Mary: The Exemplary Disciple -- Clara Lucas Balfour: Humility: The Noblest Virtue -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Receiving the Divine -- Sarah Trimmer: Blessed Humility -- Gracilla Boddington: Worshipping with Mary -- Mary Anne SchimmelPenninck: Hail Her as the Woman -- Elizabeth Wordsworth: Cleopatra or Mary? -- Christina Georgina Rossetti: The Veiled Virgin -- Elizabeth Rundle Charles: Communion and Sacrifice -- 2. Mary and Martha of Bethany: Spirituality in the Workplace -- Esther Hewlett Copley: Consecrated Abilities -- Clara Lucas Balfour: Action and Contemplation -- Nina L. McFadyen: The Happy Home in Bethany -- Etty Woosnam: Meddlesome Matty -- M. G.: Work and Devotion -- Mary Ann Smith: Doing What We Can -- PART 2 UNSEALED LIPS: WOMEN PREACHING -- 3. Anna: The Vocation of a Woman Preacher -- Sarah Hale: Anna's Spiritual Superiority -- Elizabeth Baxter: A Role Model for Female Ministry -- Elizabeth Wilson: A Woman with a Vocation -- M. G.: A Widow's Vocation: A Sermon -- 4. The Woman at the Well: The First Samaritan Evangelist -- Clara Lucas Balfour: A Changed Woman -- Elizabeth Baxter: The Gospel Preacher -- Phoebe Palmer: Women's Preaching Justified -- Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson: Empathetic Evangelistic Preaching: A Sermon -- Mary Elizabeth Beck: Bearing the Words of Life: A Sermon -- 5. Herodias and Salome: The Royal Tigresses Judged -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: It's All about Power -- Euphemia Johnson Richmond: Voluptuous Dancing -- Mrs. Donaldson: The Great Danger of Worldly Amusements: A Sermon -- Margaret Black: Pleasing the Tyrant -- PART 3 UNVEILED EYES: WOMEN AND THE BIBLICAL TEXT -- 6. A Woman of Canaan: Experiencing the Text Caroline Pridham: Gentile Dogs? -- Elizabeth Rundle Charles: Traveling to Tyre -- Mrs. Donaldson: Dealing with Our Demons: A Sermon -- 7. The Adulterous Woman: Teaching Troublesome Texts -- Lucy Barton: Heart Searching -- Mary Cornwallis: We Behold the Woman -- Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler: Who Could Invent It? -- Elizabeth Baxter: Where Is the Man? -- Josephine Butler: The Sex Bias of the Commentators -- 8. Mary Magdalene: Receiving the Text -- Anna Jameson: Mythic Magdalene -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Redeemed Penitent -- Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler: Carry the Glad Tidings -- Elizabeth Baxter: Apostle of the Resurrection -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Gullible Woman -- Amelia Gillespie Smyth: Harmonizing Magdalene -- Elizabeth Rundle Charles: Hidden Depths -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Selected Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Women's Writings on the Gospels -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Scripture |
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| ISBN: | 1467446246 |