Deaconesses and Their Work
Author : Lucy Rider Meyer
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Deaconesses
ISBN :
Author : Lucy Rider Meyer
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Deaconesses
ISBN :
Author : Jenny Wiley Legath
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1479860638
The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States In the late nineteenth century, a new movement arose within American Protestant Christianity. Unsalaried groups of women began living together, wearing plain dress, and performing nursing, teaching, and other works of welfare. Modeled after the lifestyles of Catholic nuns, these women became America’s first deaconesses. Sanctified Sisters,the first history of the deaconess movement in the United States, traces its origins in the late nineteenth century through to its present manifestations. Drawing on archival research, demographic surveys, and material culture evidence, Jenny Wiley Legath offers new insights into who the deaconesses were, how they lived, and what their legacy has been for women in Protestant Christianity. The book argues that the deaconess movement enabled Protestant women—particularly single women—to gain power in a male-dominated Protestant world. They created hundreds of new institutions within Protestantism and created new roles for women within the church. While some who study women’s ordination draw a line from the deaconesses’ work to the struggle for women’s ordination in various branches of Protestant Christianity, Legath argues that most deaconesses were not interested in ordination. Yet, while they didn’t mean to, they did end up providing a foundation for today’s ordination debates. Their very existence worked to open the possibility of ecclesiastically authorized women’s agency.
Author : John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Deaconesses
ISBN :
Author : Jane Marie Bancroft
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Deaconesses
ISBN :
Author : Janet Grierson
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Harold Nichols
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Church management
ISBN :
Author : James Mills Thoburn
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Church work
ISBN :
Author : Harold Nichols
Publisher : Work of the Church
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780817017552
Now presenting the 50th-anniversary edition of this best-selling classic in Judson Press's Work of the Church series! This Second Revised Edition of The Work of the Deacon & Deaconess features new and updated content, reflecting the evolving diversity of ministry in the diaconate. Fans will find time-honored material about the traditional roles of the deacon, as well as additional ideas for tailoring the deacon's work to the needs of a growing congregation and changing community. In particular, this second revised edition includes greater differentiation between the roles of deacon (male and female) and deaconess in churches that maintain a distinction in those ministries.
Author : General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 9780828019484
Author : Bobby Jamison
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2015-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433686201
Going Public builds a theological case for why baptism is required for church membership, answers objections, and applies this theological vision to the local church’s practice of baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and church membership.