TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Susan E. TI - Women in mission: from the New Testament to today T2 - American Society of Missiology series SN - 9781570757372-1 AV - BV2610.S661.W664 2007 KW - Women in missionary work KW - Women missionaries KW - Femmes dans l'uvre missionnaire KW - Femmes missionnaires N1 - 2; Women as co-workers with Paul --; Women as homemakers in the post-Pauline letters --; Women as disciples and prophets in the canonical and apocryphal Gospels and Acts of Apostles --; Missionary women from the second to the fifteenth century --; Missionary women in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries --; Missionary women in the nineteenth century and until Vatican II --; Missionary women since Vatican II --; A feminist missiology for contemporary missionary women N2 - In matters of mission history, most major works that treat the full sweep of the church's missional self-understanding are less than helpful in understanding women's part of that narrative. Smith tries to redress the balance with a comprehensive history of mission that highlights the critical contributions of women and the theological developments that influenced their role. --From publisher's description ER -