Spirituality and social responsibility : the vocational vision of women in the United Methodist tradition / edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keller, Rosemary Skinner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodist women--Biography.

Methodist women.

Women in church work--Methodist Church.

Women in church work.

Church and social problems--Methodist Church.

Church and social problems.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Abingdon Press, [1993]

Summary:

Women in the United Methodist tradition have long expressed their commitment to Christ, and to their sisters and brothers, through their engagement with the needs of the world and the life of the Spirit. This collection of essays and primary source documents tells the stories of pioneering ministries of United Methodist women of racial and ethnic diversity, from the late eighteenth century through today.

The essays trace the individual faith journeys and self-understanding of their subjects, revealing the sexism and racism that confronted each woman overtly or covertly in church and society, as well as in their own attitudes. Thus, through the witness of these women, Spirituality and Social Responsibility calls the church to accountability and discipleship, both pastorally and prophetically.

A selection of primary source documents follows each essay. These personal statements express vividly each woman's vision of vocation. In this way, the volume provides a lens for interpreting and analyzing the subjects' lives through their own words, and enables women and men of today to identify with the commitment, experiences, and struggles of these pioneers and apply them to their own faith journeys.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "A Wren Just Bursting Its Shell": Catherine Livingston Garrettson's Ministry of Public Domesticity / Diane H. Lobody 19

Chapter 2 Eliza Garrett: To Follow a Vision / Ila Alexander Fisher 41

Chapter 3 Amanda Berry Smith: A "Downright, Outright Christian" / Nancy A. Hardesty, Adrienne Israel 61

Chapter 4 "My Own Methodist Hive": Frances Willard's Faith as Disclosed in Her Journal, 1855-1870 / Carolyn De Swarte Gifford 81

Chapter 5 Shared Fire: The Flame Ignited by Jennie Fowler Willing / Joanne Carlson Brown 99

Chapter 6 Evangelism and Social Reform in the Pastoral Ministry of Anna Oliver, 1868-1886 / Kenneth E. Rowe 117

Chapter 7 Because God Gave Her Vision: The Religious Impulse of Ida B. Wells-Barnett / Emilie M. Townes 139

Chapter 8 Man's Prattle, Woman's Word: The Biblical Mission of Katharine Bushnell / Dana Hardwick 165

Chapter 9 Sisters in Christ: American Women Missionaries in Ewha Women's University / Kyung-Lim Shin-Lee 185

Chapter 10 Georgia Harkness

Theologian of the People: Evangelical Liberal and Social Prophet / Rosemary Skinner Keller 205

Chapter 11 Thelma Stevens, Crusader for Racial Justice / Alice G. Knotts 231

Chapter 12 The Struggle of Asian and Asian American Women Toward a Total Liberation: A Korean Methodist Woman's Vocational Journey / Alice Yun Chai 249

Chapter 13 One Spirit

Many Stories: Contemporary Laywomen Share Their Vocational Visions / Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore 265

Chapter 14 Honoring One Another with Our Stories: Authority and Mutual Ministry Among United Methodist Clergywomen in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century / Barbara B. Troxell 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0687392365

OCLC:

27106394