Women of Spirit: Female leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions PDF
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W O M E N OF SPIRIT FEMALE LEADERSHIP IN THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS MARY RUETHER ELEANOR MCLAUGHLIN Ruether, Rosemary Women of Spirit: Female leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1979. 400 p., notes, bibliography. tfin BOOKS BY ROSEMARY RUETHER , infcpna and Sensm: Images of Woman i aBt )cnh and Christian Traditions Fmh Mdano Id Mutuality: Essays on Semm mi Woman/Man Liberation hmm. Sew Earth: Sexist Ideologies mi Hnman Liberation Hm* TW foMome Face of the Church Women of Spirit WOMEN OF SPIRIT Female Leadership in the Jewish and Christian Traditions Edited by ROSEMARY RUETHER AND eleanor McLaughlin Simon and Schuster \i;u YORK Copyright (cU979bv Rosemary- Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form Published by Simon and Schuster A Division of Gulf & Western Corporation Simon & Schuster Building Rockefeller Center 12% Avenue of the Americas New York. New York 10020 Designed by Clint Anglin Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 ? 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 I 2 n 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pbk. Library' of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Women of spirit. ✓Includes bibliographical references and index. p Women (Theology)— ........ i i iff/s. i ^T Ruether. Rosemary Radford, ^11. Mc LLaauugghhlliinn.. EElleeaannoorr.. BVW9 W77WW66222 226611.8.8*9*44*1122 78-11995 ISBN WT1-2284V9 ISBN WT1-24805-7 Pbk. Contents INTRODUCTION Women’s Leadership in the Jewish and Christian Traditions: Continuity and Change Rosemary Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin 15 ONE Word, Spirit and Power: Women in Early Christian Communities Elisabeth Schiissler Fiorenza 29 TWO Mothers of the Church: Ascetic Women in the Late Patristic Age Rosemary Ruether 71 THREE Women, Power and the Pursuit of Holiness in Medieval Christianity Eleanor Mclxtughlin 99 Women of Spirit FOUR Virgins in the Service of Christ: The Dispute over an Active Apostolate for Women During the Counter-Reformation Ruth P. Liebowitz 131 FIVE “A Woman Must Not Speak”: Quaker Women in the English Left Wing Elaine C. Huber 153 SIX Jane Lead: The Feminist Mind and Art of a Seventeenth-Century Protestant Mystic Catherine F. Smith 183 SEVEN The Feminist Thrust of Sectarian Christianity Barbara Brown Zikmund 205 EIGHT Women in the Holiness Movement: Feminism in die Evangelical Tradition Nancr Hardesty. Lucille Sider Dayton and Donald W. Dayton 225 NINE Remora* the Veil The Liberated American Nun Mary Ewent. o.p. 255
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