Women in the Story of Jesus The Gospels Through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters

includes index and biblioraphy

PART 1i HEART AND HANDS: WOMEN`S SPIRITUALITY 19 1. Mary: The Exemplary Disciple 25 Clara Lucas Balfour: Humility: The Noblest Virtue 28 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Receiving the Divine 39 Sarah Trimmer: Blessed Humility 45 Gracilla Boddington: Worshipping with Mary 48 Mary Anne SchimmelPenninck: Hail Her as the Woman 51 Elizabeth Wordsworth: Cleopatra or Mary? 59 Christina Georgina Rossetti: The Veiled Virgin 62 Elizabeth Rundle Charles: Communion and Sacrifice 69 2. Mary and Martha of Bethany: Spirituality in the Workplace 77 Esther Hewlett Copley: Consecrated Abilities 80 Clara Lucas Balfour: Action and Contemplation 83 Nina L. McPadyen: The Happy Home in Bethany 93 Etty Woosnam: Medrf/esome Maffy 100 M.G.: Work and Devotion 107 Mary Ann Smith: Doing What We Can 113 PART 2 UNSEALED LIPS: WOMEN PREACHING 121 3. Anna: The Vocation of a Woman Preacher 125 Sarah Hale: Anna`s Spiritual Superiority 126 Elizabeth Baxter: A Role Model for Female Ministry 127 Elizabeth Wilson: A Woman with a Vocation 131 M. G.: A Widow`s Vocation: A Sermon 132 4. The Woman at the Well: The First Samaritan Evangelist 138 Clara Lucas Balfour: A Changed Woman 139 Elizabeth Baxter: The Gospel Preacher 144 Phoebe Palmer: Women`s Preaching Justified 147 Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson: Empathetic Evangelistic Preaching: A Sermon 151 Mary Elizabeth Beck: Bearing the Words of Life: A Sermon 5. Herodias and Salome: The Royal Tigresses Judged 163 Harriet Beecher Stowe: It`s All about Power 164 Euphemia Johnson Richmond: Voluptuous Dancing 168 Mrs. Donaldson: The Great Danger of Worldly Amusements:A Sermon Margaret Black: Pleasing the Tyrant 175 PART 3 UNVEILED EYES: WOMEN AND THE BIBLICAL TEXT 177 6. A Woman of Canaan: Experiencing the Text 183 Caroline Pridham: Gentle Dogs.? 184 Elizabeth Rundle Charles: Traveling to Tyre 187 . Mrs. Donaldson: Dealing with Our Demons: A Sermon 190 7. The Adulterous Woman: Teaching Troublesome Texts 195 Lucy Barton: Heart Searching , 197 Mary Cornwallis: We Behold the Woman 199 Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler: Who Could Invent It? 202 Elizabeth Baxter: Where Is the Man? 205 Josephine Butler: The Sex Bias of the Commentators 209 8. Mary Magdalene: Receiving the Text 212 Anna ]ameson: Mythic Magdalene 214 Harriet Beecher Stowe: Redeemed Penitent 217 Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler: Carry the Glad Tidings 224 Elizabeth Baxter: Apostle of the Resurrection 227 Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Gullible Woman 230 Amelia Gillespie Smyth: Harmonizing Magdalene 232 Elizabeth Rundle Charles: Hidden Depths 239