Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity /edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker. 

 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  (c)1998. 
 - xxii, 362 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Prophetic power and women's authority --  The early Christian Orans --  Maria Magdalena --  The prostitute-preacher --  The voice of the good women --  The right of women to give religious instruction in the thirteenth century --  Prophecy and song --  Proclaiming sanctity through proscribed acts --  Women's sermons at the end of the Middle Ages --  Feminine exemplars for reform --  Preaching or teaching? -- A voice for themselves --  In a female voice --  Spirituality and/as ideology in Black women's literature --  A chaste and fervid eloquence --  Prophetess of the spirits --  Transforming the pulpit. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520209213 9780520209220 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97030743 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB98-58086 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women clergy--History.<br/>Women evangelists--History.<br/>Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.<br/>Women in Christianity--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV676  / .W664 1998