Claiming the call to preach : four female pioneers of preaching in nineteenth-century America / Donna Giver-Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giver-Johnston, Donna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women clergy--United States--History.

Women clergy.

Bible--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Lee, Jarena, 1783-.

Lee, Jarena.

Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898.

Willard, Frances E.

Woosley, Louisa M., 1862-1952.

Woosley, Louisa M.

Randolph, Florence Spearing, 1866-1951.

Randolph, Florence Spearing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Claiming the Call to Preach critically examines the dominant historical narrative that overtly or covertly has exercised its power to keep women from preaching. Donna Giver-Johnston here recovers the histories of four notable female preaching pioneers who affected change in the religious landscape of nineteenth-century America: Jarena Lee, Frances Willard, Louisa Woosley, and Florence Spearing Randolph. These women, diverse in religion, race, class, and culture each told their story of call in distinctive ways that articulated strong and effective rhetorical arguments for ecclesiastical sanction to give them a place in the pulpit.

Contents:

The call to preach

History and theology of call : text, tradition, trope, and tactics

Jarena Lee

Frances Elizabeth Willard

Louisa Mariah Woosley

Florence Spearing Randolph

Theology and practice.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-757640-0

0-19-757639-7

OCLC:

1233021375