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That Gentle Strength: Historical Perspectives on Women in Christianity [Paperback]

Lynda L. Coon (Author)

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Paperback: 11 pages
Publisher: University of Virginia Press; First Edition edition (October 1, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813912938
ISBN-13: 978-0813912936
Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,344,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
John Angell James (1785-1859), an English Victorian minister, thus identified the essential paradox of women's position within Christianity. Read the first page

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many slaveholding women, marriage broadsheets, vernacular hagiographers, tres utile, medieval nunneries, marital imagery, female spirituality, nuptial imagery, juridical theory, holy women, female piety

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New York, Middle Ages, Old French, Abigail Adams, John Adams, John of Ephesus, Middle English, Lausiac History, Visitations of Religious Houses, Melania the Younger, California Press, Catherine Crowe, Catherine of Siena, Five Centuries, Holy Spirit, Records of Romsey Abbey, American Revolution, Eliza Clitherall, Historia Religiosa, Susan Davis, Brother Cherubino, Eleanor Sidgwick, John Chrysostom, New Testament, Oxford Univ

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Holy Women of the Syrian Orient (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) by Sebastian P. Brock on page 33, page 54, and Back Matter
When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (Studies in Cultural History) by Steven Ozment on page 17, page 144, and page 181
The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop on page 105, page 106, and page 115
The Night Side of Nature (Myth Legend & Folklore) by Catherine Crowe on page 256, page 263, and page 269
Women of Spirit by Rosemary Radford Ruether on page 16, and page 17

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Women of Byzantium by Carolyn L. Connor on 6 pages
Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent by Mary Laven in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Women Officeholders in Early Christianity: Epigraphical and Literary Studies (Theology) by Ute E. Eisen on page 22, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
In the Name of All That's Holy: A Theory of Clergy Malfeasance by Anson Shupe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Religion in Mississippi (Heritage of Mississippi Series, V. 2) by Randy J. Sparks in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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