Episcopacy, authority, and gender : : aspects of religious leadership in Europe, 1100-2000 / / edited by Jan Wim Buisman, Maljet Derks, Peter Raedts.

• TeilnehmendeR: Buisman, Jan Willem,; Derks, Maljet,; Raedts, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series in Church History 71.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

What is the base of religious leadership and how has it changed over the centuries? This volume presents a range of actors, both men and women, who, in a variety of historical contexts, claimed to be the living voices or intermediaries of God. The essays analyse the foundation of their authoritative claims and ask how and how far they succeeded in securing obedience from the Christians to whom they addressed their message. Religious authority is not understood as a monolithic entity but as something derived from many sources and claims. Whatever the national background, whether ordained or supposedly appointed through divine intervention, the histories of the people portrayed underline the long-term manifestations and multifaceted nature of Christian identity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jan Wim Buisman , Marjet Derks and Peter Raedts -- Introduction / Peter Raedts and Marjet Derks -- Canonical Anarchy and Failing Deans as Reflected in Episcopal Visitation Records of Netherlandish Collegiate Churches from the 1570s / Jan Kuys -- Episcopal Leadership and Parochial Life: Two Case Studies / Paula Yates -- Episcopal Leadership of the Church in Victorian London: A Review of the Visitation Charges delivered to their Clergy by Bishops of London c. 1830–1900 / W.M. Jacob -- Ecumenical Leadership in the Church of England: The Role of Bishop John Wordsworth / Nigel Yates -- Renewal of Religious Leadership According to an Ancient Model: Bishop Joseph Hubert Reinkens and Bishop Martin of Tours / Angela Berlis -- Creating a Model of Religious Leadership: The Vita of Gilbert of Sempringham / Katherine Sykes -- Authority and Obedience in the Early Franciscan Order / Jens Röhrkasten -- Pastoral Revolutionaries? Parish Clergy and Religious Leadership in Late Medieval England / R.N. Swanson -- Religious Leadership and English Dissent after the Glorious Revolution: The Role of the Rev. Dr Daniel Williams (ca. 1643-1715/16) / David L. Wykes -- Edward Irving’s Hybrid: Towards a Nineteenth-Century Apostolic and Presbyterian Pentecostalism / Peter Elliott -- Chairman as Leader: P.T. Forsyth in 1905 / Clyde Binfield -- Concepts of Female Leadership from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. From Hildegard of Bingen to Joan of Arc / Daniela Müller -- Catholicism, Gender, and Volcanic Leadership: Controversies around the Grail Movement in the Netherlands, 1920s–1930s / Marjet Derks -- Clerical Authority and Prophetic Alternatives: Changing Appreciations of Religious Leadership among the Dutch Dominicans during the Twentieth Century / Marit Monteiro -- Index / Jan Wim Buisman , Marjet Derks and Peter Raedts.