"Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity", edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker

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Document Type:

Collective work

Author/editor:

edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker

Standard: Kienzle, Beverly Mayne [Kienzle, Beverly M.]

Title:

Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity

Standard:

Date of Publication:

1998

Place of Publication:

Berkeley - Los Angeles - London

Standard: Berkeley, CA [Berkeley, California]

Publisher/Printer name:

University of California Press

Standard: University of California Press

ISBN/ISSN:

0-520-20921-4 ; 0-520-20922-2

Pages:

XXII, 362

Summary/Notes:

The contributors examine the centuries of arguments, grounded in Pauline injunctions, against women's public speech and the different ways women from the early years of the church through the 20th century have nonetheless exercised religious leadership in their communities. Some of them based their authority solely on divine inspiration; others were authorized by independent-minded communitites; a few were even recognized by the church hierarchy.

Contribution in a collective work :

- The Prostitute-Preacher : Patterns of polemic against medieval Waldensian women preachers