Grace Sufficient
Subtitle: A History of Women in American Methodism, 1760-1939
Edition: Reissued 1st Ed edition
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: April 1996
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780687156757
Subjects: Methodist Churches; Women's studies; Women's Studies - History; Religion; Women And The Church; Religion - Church History; Women in the Methodist Church; USA; Christianity - History - Protestant; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Christianity - Methodist; History; Methodist women; United States
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : "Mothers in Israel," 1760s-1820s.; title: "Grace sufficient" : women's religious lives in the founding era; title: "Mothers in Israel" : evangelical liberty and public domesticity; title: Part two : "True women," 1820s-1860s.; title: The true Methodist woman : prescription and reality; title: "I dare not refuse" : women called to preach the gospel; title: Partners in ministry : itinerant preachers' wives; title: "A holy boldness" : holiness evangelists; title: Part three : "New women," 1860s-twentieth century.; title: Woman's work in the church : new spheres of usefulness; title: "If God calls, how can the church refuse to call?" : the struggle for ordination; title: Methodist deaconesses : a public ministry for women; title: "Because they are women" : the struggle for laity rights; title: Missions coming home : racial-ethnic women in American Methodism; title: New women after the vote : citizens, preachers, and social reformers, 1920-1939; title: Epilogue : 1939-1968; title: Conclusion : God's call, diversity of women's lives, and grace sufficient