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

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...

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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.
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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.