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Sanctified sisters : a history of Protestant deaconesses / Jenny Wiley Legath.
LIBRA BV4423 .L44 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Legath, Jennifer Anne Wiley, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deaconesses--Protestant churches--History.
- Deaconesses.
- Deaconesses--Protestant churches.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 255 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- A tapestry of diaconates
- Negotiating gender
- Uses of Catholicism
- Deaconesses and the allowance
- Deaconesses and the ordained ministry
- Differing visions for the diaconate.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479860630
- 1479860638
- OCLC:
- 1091845551
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