Extraordinary Women of Christian History What We Can Learn from Their Struggles and Triumphs

includes index and biblioraphy

Thecla and early marrtyrs, monastics, and saints........1 Hilda of whitby and medieval nuns and abbesses.......17 Hildegard of bingen and catholic mystics and scholars.35 Katherine schutz zell and protestant reformers......51 Teresa of avila and sectarian heretics............69 Susanna wesley and eighteenth heretics.....69 Susanna wesley and eighteenth - century evangelists....88 narcissa prentiss whitman and american protestant missionaries...106 Jarena lee and afreican american evangelists.....124 Elizabeth Betsy fry and women of the social gospel........141 Anne-marie javouhey and british and European missionaries......161 harriet beecher stowe and nineteenth- century poets and writers..............179 Susannah Thompson Spurgeon and ministers wives......199 Aimee semple Mcpherson and pentecostal preachers.....217 Corrie ten boom and Celebrated Speakers and Missionaries...........235