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Title

Lydia's impatient sisters : a feminist social history of early Christianity / Luise Schottroff ; translated by Barbara and Martin Rumscheidt.

Author

Schottroff, Luise

Publication

Louisville, Ky. : Westminter John Knox Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Rumscheidt, Barbara
• Rumscheidt, Martin

Description

xvi, 298 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

What did it mean for women to become Christians during the formative years of Christianity? What implications did this conversion have for women in their relationships, in everyday life, and in their view of the future? Theologian and social historian Luise Schottroff asks these questions as she investigates the world of the first Christian women. In particular, she looks at the immeasurable influence that women had on the common life of the first Christian communities despite the struggles they endured under patriarchal domination. This book represents a significant step forward in the understanding of women in the New Testament and the early church.

Uniform Title

Lydias ungeduldige Schwestern. English

Alternative Title

Lydias ungeduldige Schwestern.

Subject

• 30-600
• Women in Christianity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
• Feminist theology
• Women in Christianity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Dorothee Soelle -- I. Feminist Social History: Historical Method and Hermeneutics. 1. The Jesus Movement and Messianic Communities in the Jewish Diaspora of the First Century C.E. 2. Patriarchy and the Hope for the Reign of God. 3. The New Testament: Word of God or Androcentric Obfuscation of History? 4. "From Life to Scripture -- From Scripture to Life" -- II. The Everyday Life of Women. 1. Oppression of Women and Hatred of Women's Liberation (I Tim. 2:9-15). 2. From Women's Hands: The Work of Women in the New Testament (Matt. 13:33; Luke 13:2Of.). 3. The Lost Coin: Women's Daily Struggle for Money and Bread (Luke 15:8-10). 4. The Stubborn Widow and the Resistance of Women (Luke 18:1-8) -- III. The Critique of Patriarchy and the Power to Become a New Being. 1. Do Not Remain in the State in Which You Were Called ... : The Calling of God and Social "Status" in Patriarchy (1Cor. 7:15-24). 2. The Gospel of the Poor and the Option for Women (Luke 6:20Off. and par.;Matt. 11:25 and par.). 3. Impenitent Patriarchy and the Nearness of God (Matt. 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-27, 30; and Mark 13:28-33): The Eschatology of Early Christianity -- VI. Liberating Praxis of Women and Men. 1. The Exaltation of Debased Women (John 7:53-8:11 and Luke 1:48): A Preliminary Remark on the Connection of These Texts. 2. "It Is Not So among You ..." (Matt. 10:42-45 and par.): Communion on the Way to God's Reign.

ISBN

• 066422072X (alk. paper)
• 0664255558 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95020339^

OCLC

• 32590323
• SCSB-11794334

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library