Deaconesses ancient and modern
By: by Henry Wheeler
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: Hunt & Eaton; Cranston & Stowe
Published: 1889
Place of publication: New York; Cincinnati
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Deaconesses
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Princeton University.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prophetesses of the Old Testament; title: Women of the gospels; title: Women of the Acts; title: Women of the epistles; title: Deaconesses of the apostolic church; title: Deaconesses of the early church; title: The ordination of deaconesses; title: The work, character, and persecutions of the ancient deaconesses; title: The decline and disappearance of the ancient order of deaconesses; title: Deaconesses and sisterhoods fundamentally different; title: The female diaconate and the error of the spiritual marriage of the individual with the church; title: The deaconesses of Kaiserwerth; title: Deaconesses in England; title: Deaconesses in the United States; title: Deaconesses in the Methodist Episcopal Church.