Saint Paul

It is also a study in generations of women's experience. Aunt Dot has the energy and confidence of Victorian or suffrage campaigners. She loves working for the advancement of women; she loves distant places and...

Lady Bridgewater returns in several essays—Considerations concerning Marriage, Of Marriage and Widdowes, and others—to the institution that shaped her life. She accepts a wife's duty of obedience (since God, who is beyond...

LH argues that the division of Christianity into sects is a greate sinne. She notes Saint Paul 's opinion of women's weakness. While admitting that judgement in the most knowing weomen is inferior to...

OM contributed an article to The Times supporting women's ordination in the Christian ministry, titled "The Thirteenth Apostle [that is St Paul ] Has a Great Deal to Answer For.

In this decade, when informers were rife and, says ES , killing a Quaker was to many people no worse than killing a louse, she fell foul of John Story , one of her...

John Wesley responded by invoking what has later been called exceptionalism. He agreed that Mary Bosanquet had an Extraordinary Call, such as Saint Paul himself had recognised when he permitted women to speak at Corinth...

LH draws on a wide range of sources to buttress her argument. These include the results of her reading—Milton , and the story of the Greek Atalanta (whose male inventors, she says, were not...

She resisted still more firmly the conventions around opening and closing letters, having a detestation of lyeing epithets of humble servants and stuff, and dear Sir and nonsense. Pliny and Cicero and Paul never begun...

The quotation about the wrath of God that stands at the head of this polemical work, from Saint Paul 's First Epistle to the Romans, gives it the appearance of a sermon on a...

AL 's title-page quotes from Saint Paul 's Epistle to the Romans: The spirit beareth witnesse to our spirit that wee are the sons of God . . . . The sentence goes on...

The title page quotes from Saint Paul : For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high...

Driven by her husband's misappropriation of funds to the point of leaving him, and reminded by him of Saint Paul 's injunction against breaking her marriage vow, Josephine Scanlan replies, St. Paul was not a...

MDF 's title-page quotes an exhortation to meekness from St Paul 's Epistle to Timothy: if Huntington had borne this advice in mind, she says, she would not have needed to write. She takes...

Reprinting a letter sent to Huntington in April 1787 about the possibility of their meeting, MDF professes herself willing to meet him to straighten matters out between them; she says she has nothing against his...

She recommends Barrie as a model for aspiring writers and, with an echo of St Paul , praises his avoidance of vulgar sensationalism: To his honour be it spoken, his stock-in-trade has been of the...