Extraordinary women of Christian history : what we can learn from their struggles and triumphs

Tucker, Ruth 1945- (author.).

Item details

ISBN: 9780801016721
ISBN: 080101672X
Physical Description: print
xi, 272 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2016]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.