Saint Paul

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...

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...

Being middle-aged and having published advice to single women, she was afraid she might be making a mistake in getting married. The marriage, however, though brief, was extremely happy. At the wedding ceremony, John...

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...

The dustjacket features Hildegarde of Bingen . A quotation from St Paul which Furlong had used before (Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak...

After this reminder of mutability, the narrative comes to focus on St Paul and his early preaching in Greece after the death of Christ. The narrative details the effect which he has upon Dionysius, a...

BH published another virtue novel, Patience, with a title-page quotation from Saint Paul .

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...

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...

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...

FAK published another novel, A Little Lower than the Angels (a title, used by several other authors, from the place of humanity in God's plan, according to Saint Paul in the Epistle to the Hebrews).

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...

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.

She points out that Saint Paul had been taught by his mother and grandmother; she decries Mans Scholastick Learning, which, she says, has too frequently been set up to contradict the Scriptures; she...