Her Story

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An accessible, introductory text first published by Fortress Press in 1983, Her Story: Women in Christian History has sold over 30,000 copies of the first edition and has ably helped readers recover the oft-ignored or submerged stories of women in the Christian tradition, from biblical times to now.Barbara MacHaffie, who wrote the brief history and compiled a lively anthology of companion primary readings, has revised and updated the text and readings. In this new edition, history and primary readings are combined and augmented with helpful pedagogical tools.This new textbook, which offers sympathetic coverage of all Christian traditions, is supported by a dedicated companion Web site that includes chapter summaries, questions for discussion and Web links that vividly bring the stories of women to life in portraits, artifacts, and other primary materials.

Introduction to the Second Edition

Women and the Early Churches

(48)

The Challenge of Early Christian History

(2)

The Prominence of Women in the Earliest Churches

(6)

Ministries of Women in the Early Churches

(5)

Creating a Patriarchal Church

(3)

Widows

(1)

Female Deacons

(2)

Women outside the Orthodox Mainstream

(2)

Patristic Attitudes toward Women

(4)

Writers, Poets, and Pilgrims

(6)

Readings for Chapter 1

Christian Widows (Apostolic Constitutions)

(1)

The Martyrdom of Perpetua (The Acts of the Christian Martyrs)

(3)

Adorning Women (Tertullian, ``On the Apparel of Women'')

(7)

Egeria in the Holy Land (``The Pilgrimage of Egeria'')

(2)

The Acts of Paul and Thecla (The Acts of Paul and Thecla)

(4)

Virgin and Witch: Women in Medieval Christianity

(40)

The Life of Virginity and Chastity

(11)

Medieval Mariology

(4)

Woman as Witch

(3)

Medieval Women Challenge and Protest

(7)

Readings for Chapter 2

Rejecting Patriarchal Marriage (The Life of Christina of Markyate)

(3)

Hunting for Witches (Malleus Maleficarum)

(4)

Margery Kempe (The Book of Margery Kempe)

(2)

Jesus as Mother (Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love)

(2)

Persuading a Pope (Catherine of Siena, ``To Gregory XI'')

(3)

Women in an Era of Reformation

(36)

Luther, Calvin, and the Status of Women

(7)

Catholic Women in an Era of Reform

(2)

Protestant Women Active in Reform

(3)

Protestant Women outside the Mainstream

101

(6)

Lasting Effects

107

(1)

Readings for Chapter 3

Luther on Marriage (Martin Luther, ``The Estate of Marriage'')

108

(3)

Calvin on the Creation of Women (John Calvin, Commentaries on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis)

111

(3)

Catholic Women in Geneva (Jeanne de Jussie, The Rise of Calvinism)

114

(5)

Women in Defense of the Reformation (Argula von Grumbach, ``To the University of Ingolstadt'')

119

(2)

Marriage and Adultery among the Hutterites (Peter Rideman, ``Concerning Marriage'' and ``Concerning Adultery'')

121

(4)

Women and Christianity in the American Colonies

125

(34)

Modified Patriarchy

125

(6)

Anne Hutchinson, the ``American Jezebel''

131

(4)

The Revival Tradition

135

(6)

Quaker Women

141

(5)

Readings for Chapter 4

Wives as Model Christians (Benjamin Colman, Practical Discourses on the Parable of the Ten Virgins)

146

(1)

Anne Hutchinson (``The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown'')

147

(5)

The ``Unfeminine Activities'' of Sarah Osborn (Letters from Sarah Osborn to Joseph Fish, February 28 and March 7, 1767)

152

(4)

Quaker Women May Speak (Margaret Fell, Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed of by the Scriptures)

156

(3)

Women Organizing for Mission and Reform

159

(36)

The Cult of True Womanhood

159

(5)

Organizing for Charity and Reform

164

(5)

The Social Gospel

169

(1)

Fundamentalism

170

(1)

Women in Mission

171

(5)

Legacy of the Voluntary Societies

176

(3)

Readings for Chapter 5

The Cult of True Womanhood (George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman)

179

(2)

The Cause of Moral Reform (The Constitution and Circular of the New York Female Moral Reform Society)

181

(2)

Equal Rights and Moral Duties (Sarah Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman)

183

(5)

Missionary Women Step beyond Their Sphere (Helen Barrett Montgomery, Western Women in Eastern Lands)

188

(7)

Nineteenth-Century Preachers and Scholars

195

(38)

Women in the Evangelical Tradition

195

(7)

The Debate over Women Preaching

202

(2)

Ordination to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament

204

(2)

The Deaconess Movement

206

(1)

The Woman's Bible

207

(5)

Readings for Chapter 6

A Defense of Female Preaching (Luther Lee, ``Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel'')

212

(3)

The Argument from Pentecost (Phoebe Palmer, The Promise of the Father)

215

(3)

Amanda Smith's Call to Preach (Amanda Smith, An Autobiography)

218

(7)

Paul Prohibits the Preaching of Women (Cyrus Cort, ``Woman Preaching Viewed in the Light of God's Word and Church History'')

225

(2)

Women Re-Vision the Bible (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ed., The Woman's Bible)

227

(6)

American Women in Catholicism and Sectarianism

233

(40)

The History of Women in American Catholicism

233

(4)

American Women in Religious Orders

237

(4)

Women and Sectarian Christianity

241

(10)

Readings for Chapter 7

Catholic Sisters as America's Educators (Mother Caroline and the School Sisters of Notre Dame in North America)

251

(5)

Catholic Sisters as Civil War Nurses (``Notes on the Satterlee Military Hospital'')

256

(6)

Complex Marriage in the Oneida Community (Bible Communism)

262

(4)

The Experience of Polygamy (Martha Cragun Cox)

266

(2)

Shaker Women in Community (Charles Nordhoff, The Communistic Societies of the United States)

268

(5)

The Move Toward Full Participation

273

(32)

The Expansion of Denominational Roles

274

(2)

Signs of Retrenchment

276

(2)

Postwar Changes

278

(2)

A New Agenda for Women

280

(4)

Readings for Chapter 8

Unrest among Presbyterian Women (Katharine Bennett and Margaret E. Hodge, Causes of Unrest among Women of the Church)

284

(5)

Investigating the Status of Women in the Churches (Kathleen Bliss, The Service and Status of Women in the Churches)

289

(7)

Raising the Consciousness of Baptist Women (Lois Blankenship, ``Woman Looks at Herself'')

296

(3)

The Patriarchal Church (Mary Daly, The Church and the Second Sex)

299

(6)

Agents of Transformation

305

(40)

Women in the Ordained Ministry

305

(7)

The Ministries of Deaconess and Nun

312

(2)

Feminist Approaches to the Bible

314

(3)

Theological Education

317

(2)

Worship

319

(4)

The Need for Feminist Theologies

323

(5)

What Comes Next?

328

(3)

Readings for Chapter 9

Admission of Women to the Priesthood (``Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood'')

331

(2)

Inclusive Language for Worship (An Inclusive Language Lectionary)

333

(1)

Feminist Liturgy (Women's Ordination Conference, Liberating Liturgies)

334

(3)

Feminist Views of Sin and Salvation (Letty M. Russell, Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective)

337

(4)

Jesus in Womanist Theology (Jacquelyn Grant, ``Womanist Theology'')

341

(4)

Acknowledgments

345

(2)

Notes

347

(10)

Suggestions for Further Reading

357

(24)

Index of Names and Subjects

381

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