Saving Women: Retrieving Evangelistic Theology and PracticeSaving Women is a much-needed study of women's contributions to the theology of evangelism. Through a careful consideration of the primary sources of six Protestant women ministering in America from 1800-1950, this historical and theological study demonstrates that these women combined verbal proclamation with other historic Christian practices in their roles as preacher, visitor, missionary, educator, activist, and reformer. |
Contents
Dorothy Ripley | 13 |
Sarah and Angelina Grimké | 57 |
Julia A J Foote | 103 |
Frances E Willard | 143 |
Helen Barrett Montgomery | 183 |
Mary McLeod Bethune | 223 |
Conclusion | 263 |
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Abingdon According African Americans African-American American Anti-Slavery Society Angelina Grimké antislavery Baptist Bethune abridged Bethune's Bible and Missions Brand Plucked Brekus Called to Witness Campus to World Christian faith Christian Women claimed context discipleship Dorothy Ripley ecclesiology entire sanctification evangelistic ministry evangelistic theology example experience Extraordinary Conversion father female Feminist Finney Foote's gender Gifford Glimpses of Fifty God’s Grand Rapids Grimké Sisters Hardesty Helen Barrett Montgomery holiness movement implications included Interview with Bethune Jesus Christ Julia A. J. Foote Lerner Logic of Evangelism Mary McLeod Bethune McLeod Bethune Building Methodist Episcopal Church minister missionary movement Montgomery Nashville nineteenth century NWCTU Minutes Palmer Phoebe Palmer prayer preachers preaching Presbyterian Quaker racial reform Religion religious Ripley's role salvation Sarah and Angelina Sarah Grimké Saving Women Scripture sins slavery slaves social gospel Spiritual Autobiography Testament themes theology and practice tion verbal proclamation vocation Weld Wesleyan Willard woman Women Called World Citizenship