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Her story : women in Christian tradition / Barbara J. MacHaffie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 385 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781451404029
  • 1451404026
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 270.082 23
Other classification:
  • 11.50
Online resources:
Contents:
Women and the early churches -- Virgin and witch : women in medieval Christianity -- Women in an era of Reformation -- Women and Christianity in the American colonies -- Women organizing for mission and reform -- Nineteenth-century preachers and scholars -- American women in Catholicism and sectarianism -- The move toward full participation -- Agents of transformation.
Summary: 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 website 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.
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ULS: History of Modern Christianity: 1500 ULS: Spring 2025

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 website 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.

Women and the early churches -- Virgin and witch : women in medieval Christianity -- Women in an era of Reformation -- Women and Christianity in the American colonies -- Women organizing for mission and reform -- Nineteenth-century preachers and scholars -- American women in Catholicism and sectarianism -- The move toward full participation -- Agents of transformation.

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