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Extraordinary women of Christian history : what we can learn from their struggles and triumphs / Ruth A. Tucker.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Books, c2016.Description: xi, 272 p ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801016721
  • 080101672X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.092/52 B 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1713 .T828 2016
Contents:
Thecla and early martyrs, monastics, and saints -- Hilda of Whitby and medieval nuns and abbesses -- Hildegard of Bingen and Catholic mystics and scholars -- Katherine Schütz Zell and Protestant reformers -- Theresa of Ávila and sectarian "heretics" -- Susanna Wesley and eighteenth-century evangelists -- Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and American protestant missionaries -- Jarena Lee and African American evangelists -- Elizabeth "Betsy" Fry and women of the social gospel -- Anne-Marie Javouhey and British and European missionaries -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and nineteenth-century poets and writers -- Susannah Thompson Spurgeon and ministers' wives -- Aimee Semple McPherson and pentecostal preachers -- Corrie ten Boom and celebrated speakers and missionaries.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thecla and early martyrs, monastics, and saints -- Hilda of Whitby and medieval nuns and abbesses -- Hildegard of Bingen and Catholic mystics and scholars -- Katherine Schütz Zell and Protestant reformers -- Theresa of Ávila and sectarian "heretics" -- Susanna Wesley and eighteenth-century evangelists -- Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and American protestant missionaries -- Jarena Lee and African American evangelists -- Elizabeth "Betsy" Fry and women of the social gospel -- Anne-Marie Javouhey and British and European missionaries -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and nineteenth-century poets and writers -- Susannah Thompson Spurgeon and ministers' wives -- Aimee Semple McPherson and pentecostal preachers -- Corrie ten Boom and celebrated speakers and missionaries.