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early Christianity and the liberation of women

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Anne Jensen, Anne Jensen
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An edition of God's self-confident daughters (1996)

God's self-confident daughters

early Christianity and the liberation of women

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In this study, Anne Jensen provides an exhaustive account of the many roles that women played in the early church and their subsequent marginalization by the later church. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the history of the church and its impact on the lives of women throughout the ages.

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Kok Pharos Pub. House
Language
English
Pages
347

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Subjects

History, Women in Christianity, 5e s., Émancipation, Eglise, Early church, Christianisme, Femme, Femmes dans le christianisme, Histoire, Women, history

Times

Early church, ca. 30-600

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1996, Kok Pharos Pub. House
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1996, Westminster John Knox Press
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Table of Contents

I. Women in the Church Histories: Development into the Church of Men. 1. Four Different Authors. 2. Statistical Matters. 3. Women as a Qualified Minority: The Church History of Eusebius. 4. The Marginalization of Women: Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret. 5. Innovations: Progress or Regress?
II. Women in Martyrdom: Courageous Confessors. 1. Historical Background. 2. Deliverance into Prostitution: The Double Martyrdom. 3. Blandina
a Slave as Mother of the Church. 4. Perpetua and Felicity
Mothers and Martyrs. 5. Martyrdom and Baptism: A Theological Analysis of Perpetua's Visions. 6. Martyrdom and Representation of Christ
III. Women in Proclamation: Charismatic Prophetesses. 1. Prophecy and Christian Existence. 2. The New Prophecy: Prisca and Maximilla. 3. The Eucharist of a Prophetess
IV. Redemption through Knowledge: Bright Women Teachers. 1. Baptism without Water? The Cainite Anonyma in Carthage. 2. "Wiser than Marcion": The Virgin Philomena, Prophetess in Rome.

Edition Notes

"English language edition first published in U.S.A. by Westminister Knox Press"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index.

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Kampen, the Netherlands

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
270.1082
Library of Congress
BR195.W6 J4613 1996b

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxix, 347 pages
Number of pages
347

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28401199M
ISBN 10
903900272X
ISBN 13
9789039002728
OCLC/WorldCat
36451873

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