Women in early Christianity /

Women in early Christianity / [print] edited with an introduction by David M. Scholer. - New York : Garland Pub., (c)1993. - xiii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Second century references to the mother of Jesus The worship of the virgin Mary at Ephesus The historical background of the doctrine of the assumption Acts of the women martyrs The role of martyrdom and persecution in developing the priestly authority of women in early Christianity : a case study of Montanism The fathers on women and women's ordination The "Divine woman"? Propoganda and the power of celibacy in the New Testament Apocrypha : a reconsideration Libertine or liberated : women in the so-called libertine gnostic communities Sexual equality and the cult of virginity in early Christian thought Sexual politics in the writings of John Chrysostom The conversion of women to ascetic forms of Christianity Misogynism and virginal feminism in the fathers of the church Women and asceticism in the fourth century : a question of interpretation Christianization in the fourth cent Stephen Benko -- W.M. Ramsay -- R.L.P. Milburn -- Blandina and Perpetua : two early Christian heroines William H.C. Frend -- Francine Cardman -- Frederick C. Klawiter -- J. Kevin Coyle -- Gail Paterson Corrington -- James E. Goehring - - Sex and salvation in Tertullian F. Forrester Church -- Jo Ann McNamara -- Elizabeth A. Clark -- Ross S. Kraemer -- Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Jane Simpson -- y : the example of Roman women Anne Yarbrough.



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Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

BR195.S368.W664 1993