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Christianity has long been criticized as a patriarchal religion. But during its two-thousand-year history, the faith has been influenced and passed down by faithful women. Martyrs and nuns, mystics and scholars, writers and reformers, preachers and missionaries, abolitionists and evangelists, these women are examples to us of faith, perseverance, forgiveness, and fortitude.With gracious irreverence, Ruth Tucker offers engaging and candid profiles of some of the most fascinating women of Christian history. From the famous to the infamous to the obscure, women like Perpetua, Joan of Arc, Teresa of Avila, Anne Hutchinson, Susanna Wesley, Ann Judson, Harriet Tubman, Fanny Crosby, Hannah Whitehall Smith, Corrie ten Boom, and Mother Teresa, along with dozens of others, come to vivid life.
About the Author
Ruth A. Tucker (PhD, Northern Illinois University) has taught in the fields of church history, women's studies and alternative religions at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Formerly, a professor of mission and church history at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she is the author of more than twenty books, including Black and White Bible, Black and Blue wife; Parade of Faith: A Biographical History of the Christian Church; The Biographical Bible; and From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: Second Edition. She lives with her husband John Worst in Grand Rapids, MI
