God's Self-Confident Daughters

In this study, Anne Jensen provides an exhaustive account of the many roles that women played in the early church (confessors, martyrs, prophetesses, and teachers) 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.

Anne Jensen is a member of the Catholic theological faculty of Eberhard-Karls University, Tubingen, and the Institute for Ecumenical Research.

Preface
Translator's Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Women in the Church Histories: Development into the Church of Men	p. 1
Four Different Authors	p. 1
Statistical Matters	p. 5
Women as a Qualified Minority: The Church History of Eusebius	p. 9
The Marginalization of Women: Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret	p. 30
Innovations: Progress or Regress?	p. 58
Women in Martyrdom: Courageous Confessors	p. 81
Historical Background	p. 81
Deliverance into Prostitution: The Double Martyrdom	p. 84
Blandina - a Slave as Mother of the Church	p. 90
Perpetua and Felicity - Mothers and Martyrs	p. 93
Martyrdom and Baptism: A Theological Analysis of Perpetua's Visions	p. 100
Martyrdom and Representation of Christ	p. 111
Women in Proclamation: Charismatic Prophetesses	p. 125
Prophecy and Christian Existence	p. 125
The New Prophecy: Prisca and Maximilla	p. 133
The Eucharist of a Prophetess	p. 182
Redemption through Knowledge: Bright Women Teachers	p. 189
Baptism without Water? The Cainite Anonyma in Carthage	p. 193
"Wiser than Marcion": The Virgin Philomena, Prophetess in Rome	p. 194
Epilogue	p. 226
Texts	p. 236
Cyprian, Letter 4	p. 236
The Martyrdom of Blandina (Greek Extract)	p. 238
Logia from the New Prophecy (Greek/Latin)	p. 238
Overview	p. 240
Tables: Women in the Church Histories	p. 245
Map, Chronology	p. 256
Notes	p. 258
Bibliography	p. 312
Index	p. 342
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