Saint Paul

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...

As its fuller title explains, Good News to the Good Women is also addressed to the Bad Women too that will grow better, the like to the men, but here the women are put in...

MDF 's riposte, again in the form of a prose letter and longer than her other works, addresses Huntington, the father, on the grounds that the pamphlet published in the name of the daughter, Morton...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...