Women and the Christian Story

A Global History

Jennifer Hornyak Wojciechowski

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781506473758
• eBook ISBN: 9781506473765
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Women in History

"This is a story about Christian women. It is a story of martyrs, mystics, missionaries, leaders, preachers, theologians, saints, and prophets."

For most of its two-thousand-year history, Christianity has told its stories from the perspective of men, mostly powerful men, and almost always men in control of the "official" narrative. These masculine narratives tell only part of the story because they obscure the rich and essential contributions, large and small, of Christian women throughout time. If the stories of women have been overlooked generally, stories of women from outside the Western tradition have been even more seriously overlooked.

In this exciting, readable, and fresh new history of Christianity, Jennifer Hornyak Wojciechowski foregrounds the story of Christian women for a new era. Be they powerful or nameless, saintly or flawed, women across two millennia and six continents are lifted up and allowed to speak fully to their part in the spread of the faith.

Wojciechowski's book works perfectly as a classroom text while welcoming general readers of all backgrounds and interest levels.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Following an Illegal Faith (30–300)
• 2 Women under Empire (300–500)
• 3 Expansion and a Move North (500–1000)
• 4 Monastics and Mystics in the High to Late Middle Ages (1000–1500)
• 5 Women in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations (1500s)
• 6 Women in Colonial America (1500–1750)
• 7 Women in the Time of Reason, Revolutions, and Awakenings (1700–1850)
• 8 Women and Global Missions
• 9 Enter the Evangelist and the Prophetess
• 10 Women and Reform
• 11 Global Christianity in a Modern World
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index