Extraordinary women of Christian history :
Tucker, Ruth, 1945-
Extraordinary women of Christian history : what we can learn from their struggles and triumphs / Ruth A. Tucker. - Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Books, c2016. - xi, 272 p ; 23 cm.
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.
9780801016721 080101672X
2015026964
Christian women--Biography.
Women in Christianity--History.
BR1713 / .T828 2016
270.092/52 B
Extraordinary women of Christian history : what we can learn from their struggles and triumphs / Ruth A. Tucker. - Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Books, c2016. - xi, 272 p ; 23 cm.
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.
9780801016721 080101672X
2015026964
Christian women--Biography.
Women in Christianity--History.
BR1713 / .T828 2016
270.092/52 B