Extraordinary Women of Christian History

What We Can Learn from Their Struggles and Triumphs

Ruth A. Tucker

• Publisher: Baker Books
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781493401581
• Topic: Theology & Religion

Christianity has long been criticized as a patriarchal religion. But during its two-thousand-year history, the faith has been influenced and passed down by faithful women. Martyrs and nuns, mystics and scholars, writers and reformers, preachers and missionaries, abolitionists and evangelists, these women are examples to us of faith, perseverance, forgiveness, and fortitude.

With gracious irreverence, Ruth Tucker offers engaging and candid profiles of some of the most fascinating women of Christian history. From the famous to the infamous to the obscure, women like Perpetua, Joan of Arc, Teresa of Avila, Anne Hutchinson, Susanna Wesley, Ann Judson, Harriet Tubman, Fanny Crosby, Hannah Whitehall Smith, Corrie ten Boom, and Mother Teresa, along with dozens of others, come to vivid life. Perfect for small groups, these portraits of women who changed the world in their own significant way will spark lively discussion and inspire today's Christians to lives of faithful witness.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Thecla and Early Martyrs, Monastics, and Saints
• 2. Hilda of Whitby and Medieval Nuns and Abbesses
• 3. Hildegard of Bingen and Catholic Mystics and Scholars
• 4. Katherine Schütz Zell and Protestant Reformers
• 5. Teresa of Ávila and Sectarian “Heretics”
• 6. Susanna Wesley and Eighteenth-Century Evangelists
• 7. Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and American Protestant Missionaries
• 8. Jarena Lee and African American Evangelists
• 9. Elizabeth “Betsy” Fry and Women of the Social Gospel
• 10. Anne-Marie Javouhey and British and European Missionaries
• 11. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nineteenth-Century Poets and Writers
• 12. Susannah Thompson Spurgeon and Ministers’ Wives
• 13. Aimee Semple McPherson and Pentecostal Preachers
• 14. Corrie ten Boom and Celebrated Speakers and Missionaries
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index
• Back Ad
• Back Cover