Women, Freedom, and CalvinFreedom, as understood by John Calvin, and as applied to the role of women in church and society, is the subject of this provocative book. Putting into perspective discussions about women in the church, particularly their ordination, Jane Dempsey Douglass looks not only at Calvin's Institutes but also at the work of humanists who were contemporaries of the Reformer, along with writings by and about women that could have influenced him. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Freedom in Gods Order | 24 |
Calvin in the Medieval and Renaissance Context | 66 |
Freedom in Obedience | 108 |
Notes | 123 |
Bibliography | 143 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Women, Freedom, and Calvin Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures: The Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures Annie Kinkead Warfield lectures Women's studies: Westminster Press |
| Author | E. Jane Dempsey Douglass |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press, 1985 |
| ISBN | 066424663X, 9780664246631 |
| Length | 155 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Theology / General Social Science / Women's Studies |
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