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Deaconesses ancient and modern / by Henry Wheeler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheeler, Henry, 1835-1925.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deaconesses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, 315 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hunt & Eaton ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1889.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Prophetesses of the Old Testament
- Women of the gospels
- Women of the Acts
- Women of the epistles
- Deaconesses of the apostolic church
- Deaconesses of the early church
- The ordination of deaconesses
- The work, character, and persecutions of the ancient deaconesses
- The decline and disappearance of the ancient order of deaconesses
- Deaconesses and sisterhoods fundamentally different
- The female diaconate and the error of the spiritual marriage of the individual with the church
- The deaconesses of Kaiserwerth
- Deaconesses in England
- Deaconesses in the United States
- Deaconesses in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the original from the Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Princeton University.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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