Saint Paul

This work is prefaced by testimonies including one by Theophila Townsend . Her account of her ministry tells of physical suffering andurance: as JV wrote not long before she died, how many hundred Miles have...

Her message here is one of submission to established rulers and avoidance of sedition. She takes as her text to preach on a quotation from St Paul's first epistle to Peter, beginning with a...

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...

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...

Having been weighing the matter before the Lord, she wrote: I believe I am called to do all I can for God. This included helping at prayer meetings, at the invitation of a brother or...

This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...

Although it says Not oft use I to wryght / In prose nor yet in ryme, it is passionately confident in tone. The stanza about the bloody force which has usurped the throne of...

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...

Naomi, who has the same energy, strength of faith, and nobility of character as her father, struggles for much of the novel against the limitations on female employment. Early on she asks herself What use...

Again the title-page quotes Saint Paul . The heroine, one of three daughters of a clergyman, personifies the virtue of the title even at the end, in happy love. The eldest sister, meanwhile, behaves like...

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...

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...

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...