Women, Freedom, and Calvin

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Westminster John Knox Press, Jan 1, 1985 - Religion - 155 pages

Freedom, 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
Freedom in Obedience
108
Notes
123
Bibliography
143
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