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.…mehr
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.
Donna Giver-Johnston is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament, currently serving as Pastor of Community Presbyterian Church of Ben Avon. She has a PhD and MA from Vanderbilt University and an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary.
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I. The Call to Preach II. History and Theology of the Call: Text, Tradition, Trope, and Tactics III. Jarena Lee IV. Frances Elizabeth Willard V. Louisa Mariah Woosley VI. Florence Spearing Randolph VII. Theology and Practice Coda Appendix Bibliography
I. The Call to Preach II. History and Theology of the Call: Text, Tradition, Trope, and Tactics III. Jarena Lee IV. Frances Elizabeth Willard V. Louisa Mariah Woosley VI. Florence Spearing Randolph VII. Theology and Practice Coda Appendix Bibliography
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