God's Self-Confident Daughters: Early Christianity and the Liberation of Women

by Anne Jensen

Overview

In this study, Anne Jensen provides an exhaustive account of the many roles that women played in the early church (confessors, martyrs, prophetesses, and teachers) and their subsequent marginalization by the later church. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the history of the church and its impact on the lives of women throughout the ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664256722
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	10/01/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Anne Jensen was a member of the Catholic theological faculty at Eberhard-Karls University in Tubingen, Germany, and the Institute for Ecumenical Research.