Christianity and Society
Subtitle: The Social World of Early Christianity (Recent Studies in Early Christianity)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780815330684
Subjects: Early Church; Social history; Religion; Religion - Socialissues; General; Religion / General; History; Christianity - General
First sentence: When in 1851 the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth turned her rhetorical fire against a Protestant clergyman who had ridiculed the campaign for women's suffrage on the grounds that females were helpless and weak, she was not (we may assume) impelled by the debates over "essentialism" that have unsettled feminist theory for the past decade and more.