From Their Lips : : Voices of Early Christian Women /

From Their Lips : : Voices of Early Christian Women / / VK McCarty.

The Eastern Church venerates among its saints several Early Christian women whose teaching and wisdom contribute to the depth of our theological heritage. Their inspired voices can be heard at work witnessing: in the New Testament, in the early centuries of the Church Fathers and throughout the Byza...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
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McCarty, VK,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Handbooks ; 53
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • FOREWORD
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. EARLY VOICES, EARLY WOMEN’S MINISTRY
  • CHAPTER I.1 LYDIA: SPEAKING UP TO THE APOSTLES
  • CHAPTER I.2 THE VOICE OF ST. THEKLA: INWARDLY TUNED BY GOD1
  • CHAPTER I.3 QUEEN TRYPHAENA: THE LORD’S REFUGE IN HOSPITALITY
  • CHAPTER I.4 PERPETUA’S STORY IN HER OWN WORDS: HOPE FACING MARTYRDOM
  • II. THE LONG BYZANTINE HYMN OF PRAISE
  • CHAPTER II.1 ST. HELENA: BECOMING A CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPRESS
  • CHAPTER II.2 DIVINE FIRE: THE MYSTIC ST. SYNCLETICA SPEAKS
  • CHAPTER II.3 ST. MACRINA: TEACHING GREGORY OF NYSSA ON THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL
  • CHAPTER II.4 THE DEACONESS OLYMPIAS: SOULMATE OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
  • CHAPTER II.5 THE HYMNOGRAPHER KASSIA: CHANTING THE INCARNATION
  • III. NEW THEKLAS AND NEW HELENAS
  • CHAPTER III.1 EMPRESSES SPEAK OF PHILANTHROPIA: FOLLOWING THE COMMAND OF CHRIST
  • CHAPTER III.2 ANNA KOMNENE’S ALEXIAD: THE VOICE OF THE GOOD DAUGHTER (KALE THUGATER)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDICES

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