Women of Spirit: Female Leadership in the Jewish and Christian Traditions (1979) is a volume edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin.

Abstract

"Women theologians, writing in their own fields, discuss women as charismatic leaders, dissenters, martyrs, and reformers within the structure of centralized church authority and examine theological images of femininity."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

Contents=

• Introduction: Women's leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions: continuity and change / Rosemary Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin
• World, spirit and power: women in early Christian communities / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
• Mothers of the church : ascetic women in the late patristic age / Rosemary Ruether
• Women, power and the pursuit of holiness in medieval Christianity / Eleanor McLaughlin
• Virgins in the service of Christ: the dispute over an active apostolate for women during the Counter-Reformation / Ruth P. Liebowitz
• "A woman must not speak": Quaker women in the English left wing / Elaine C. Huber
• Jane Lead: the feminist mind and art of a seventeenth-century Protestant mystic / Catherine F. Smith
• The feminist thrust of sectarian Christianity / Barbara Brown Zikmund
• Women in the Holiness Movement : feminism in the evangelical tradition / Nancy Hardesty, Lucille Sider Dayton and Donald W. Dayton
• Removing the veil : the liberated American nun / Mary Owens
• "Their prodigious influence" : women, religion and reform in Antebellum America / Dorothy C. Bass
• American women in ministry : a history of Protestant beginning points / Virginia Lieson Brereton and Christa Ressmeyer Klein
• Women in Judaism : from the Reform Movement to contemporary Jewish religious feminism / Ellen M. Umansky
• Entering the sanctuary : the struggle for priesthood in contemporary Episcopalian and Roman Catholic experience:
  • I. The Episcopalian story / Norene Carter
  • II. The Roman Catholic story / Rosemary Ruether

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