Singleness of Heart: Gender, Sin, and Holiness in Historical Perspective

by Diane Leclerc, Randy L. Maddox (Foreword by)

Overview

This book, in light of recent feminist theology on the doctrine of sin, attempts to provide historical support for such feminist considerations. It examines fourth-century church fathers, John Wesley, and Phoebe Palmer as places where an alternative of traditional definitional definition, pride, can be found.

Diane Leclerc devotes this study to an important twofold question: "What is the most adequate Christian diagnosis of our fundamental human problem?" and the corollary, " How should we understand the wholeness/holiness that Christianity seeks to promote?". While this interrelated topic is challenging in its own right, she has also chosen to approach it by bringing into dialogue some diverse conversation partners. What makes Leclerc's study so instructive is that no partner in this conversation emerges without some challenge for revision, or without some affirmation of their central concerns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461701941
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/23/2001
Series:	Pietist and Wesleyan Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Diane Leclerc is Professor of Historical Theology at Northwest Nazarene University. Her last pastoral position was Interim Pastor, at Epworth Liturgical Church, Boise.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword by Randy L. Maddox
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Abbreviations
Chapter 5 1 "Missing the Mark" Augustine's Skewed Aim and Feminist Critique
Chapter 6 2 "Female Men of God": The Ascetic Theory and Practice of Jerome, Chrysostom, and Augustine
Chapter 7 3 "Female Brethern": Women and the Unwitting Wisdom of John Wesley
Chapter 8 4 "Dignified Daughters": Entire Devotion and the Emancipated Praxis of Phoebe Palmer
Chapter 9 5 Sin of the (M)other: A Wesleyan-Holiness-Feminist Hamartiology
Chapter 10 Appendix
John Wesley's Correspondence with Women
Chapter 11 Bibliography
Chapter 12 Index
Chapter 13 About the Author