When the Baptist movement began four centuries ago, revolutionary forces had destabilized the centers of social control that had long kept women in their place. In the early seventeenth century, Baptist women began to speak their minds. Through their prophetic writings, these women came to exercise considerable influence and authority among the early churches. When Baptists became more institutionalized later in the century, the egalitarian distinction dissipated and women s voices again, for a long history, were silenced. However, long ago, in early Baptist life in England, women did...
When the Baptist movement began four centuries ago, revolutionary forces had destabilized the centers of social control that had long kept women in...
Provides a sweeping intellectual history of the public virtue of religiously motivated dissent from the seventeenth century to the present, by carefully comparing, contrasting, and then weighing the various types of dissent - evangelical and spiritual dissent, economic and social dissent, radical and apocalyptic dissent.
Provides a sweeping intellectual history of the public virtue of religiously motivated dissent from the seventeenth century to the present, by careful...
