| Women Freedom and Calvin Contributor(s): Douglass, Jane Dempsey (Author) |
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ISBN: 066424663X ISBN-13: 9780664246631 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press OUR PRICE: $26.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1985 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Theology |
| Dewey: 261.834 |
| LCCN: 85008778 |
| Lexile Measure: 1630 |
| Series: 1983 Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.08" W x 9.02" (0.55 lbs) 156 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Theometrics - Mainline - Religious Orientation - Christian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Freedom, as understood by John Calvin, and as applied to the role of women in church and society, is the subject of this provocative book. Putting into perspective discussions about women in the church, particularly their ordination, Jane Dempsey Douglass looks not only at Calvin's Institutes but also at the work of humanists who were contemporaries of the Reformer, along with writings by and about women that could have influenced him. |
Contributor Bio(s): Douglass, Jane Dempsey: - Jane Dempsey Douglass is Hazel Thompson McCord Professor Emerita of Historical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Douglass is a former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. She is the author of Women, Freedom, and Calvin. |