In honor of the women who protected each other at Christianity Today,<\/em> who spoke out against the harrassment, and who told their stories to Daniel Silliman, I offer this resource list on women in church history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBelow is a short list of secondary sources, written by mostly historians (all scholars), that will deepen your understanding of women in church history (especially women\u2019s leadership). It is not an exhaustive list (I am better on European and Black scholarship\u2013I need to become more robust on Latin American and Asian scholarship), and I will continue to add to it. I have only included books with which I am personally familiar (many of these I have taught).<\/p>\n
It is also not a biblical studies list, but I can tell you that simply reading more books like Kat Armas (Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us About Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength<\/em>), Amanda W. Benckhuysen,\u00a0The Gospel According to Eve: A History of Women\u2019s Interpretation),<\/em> C. Wilda Gafney (A Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Tora and the<\/em> Throne), Dorothy A. Lee (The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical Vision for Church Leadership), <\/em>Carolyn Custis James (Half the Church: Recapturing God\u2019s Global Vision for Women), <\/em>Lucy Peppiat, (Rediscovering Scripture\u2019s Vision for Women), <\/em>Renita J. Weems\u00a0 (Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women\u2019s Relationships in the Bible),\u00a0<\/em>and Ronald W. Pierce and Cynthia Long Westfall, et. al., eds (Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theologica, Cultural & Practical Perspectives<\/em>), will show you how limited a perspective evangelical biblical training often is. If you haven\u2019t read Angela Parker\u2019s\u00a0If God Still Breathes, Why Can\u2019t I: Black Lives Matter & Biblical Authority<\/em>, then I strongly encourage you to pick it up too.<\/p>\nSecondary Sources<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>(and shoutout to Merry Wiesner-Hanks\u00a0Gender in History: Global Perspectives<\/em> which contains a fantastic bibliography on women in Christianity)<\/p>\nAnthea Butler,\u00a0Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World\u00a0<\/em>(UNC Press, 2007).<\/p>\nLynn Cohick,\u00a0Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life\u00a0<\/em>(Baker Academic, 2009).<\/p>\nLeanne M. Dzubinski and Anneke H. Stasson,\u00a0Women in the Mission of the Church: Their Opportunities and Obstacles throughout Christian History\u00a0<\/em>(Baker Academic, 2021).<\/p>\nElizabeth Flowers,\u00a0Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II\u00a0<\/em>(UNC Press, 2003).<\/p>\nEvelyn Brooks Higginbotham,\u00a0Righteous Discontent: The Women\u2019s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).<\/p>\nNora E. Jaffary, ed.,\u00a0Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas\u00a0<\/em>(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007)<\/p>\nBeverly Maine Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker, eds.,\u00a0Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millenia of Christianity\u00a0<\/em>(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).<\/p>\nGary Macy,\u00a0The Hidden History of Women\u2019s Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2008).<\/p>\nJo Ann McNamara,\u00a0Sainted Women of the Dark Ages: Edited and Translated by Jo Ann McNamara, John E. Halborg, with E. Gordon Whatley<\/em> (Duke University Press, 1992).<\/p>\nSherrin Marshall, ed.,\u00a0Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe: Public and Private Worlds\u00a0<\/em>(Bloomington, Indiana UP, 1989).<\/p>\nJoAnn Kay McNamara,\u00a0Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millenia\u00a0<\/em>(Camgridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).<\/p>\nBettye Collier-Thomas,\u00a0Jesus, Jobs, and Justic: African American Women and Religion\u00a0<\/em>(Alfred A. Knoff, 2010).<\/p>\nPrimary Sources used in writing The Making of Biblical Womanhood<\/em><\/strong><\/span> (and thanks to Katherine Goodwin for compiling this bibliography; some of these are mixtures of primary and secondary, and some are sourcebooks<\/em>)<\/p>\nAncient<\/strong><\/p>\nDanny P. Jackson, trans., The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em>. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1997.<\/p>\nMary. R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant. <\/strong>Women\u2019s Life in Greece and Rome. <\/em>London: Bloomsbury, 2016.<\/p>\nSarah B. Pomeroy, The Murder of Regilla: A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity. <\/em>Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.<\/p>\nMedieval<\/strong><\/p>\nElizabeth Alvilda Petroff, ed. Medieval Women\u2019s Visionary Literature<\/em>. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong>John H. Arnold and Katherine J. Lewis. A Companion to The Book of Margery Kempe<\/em>. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.<\/p>\nEllen Babinsky, trans. Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls<\/em>. New York: Paulist Press, 1993.<\/p>\nLisa M. Bitel. Landscapes with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe. <\/em>Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.<\/p>\nAlcuin Blamires. Woman Defamed, Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts. <\/em>Oxford: Calrendon, 1992.<\/p>\nMonica Furlong. Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics<\/em>. New York: Shambala, 1997.<\/p>\nHeather Gregory, trans. ed. Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi. <\/em>Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.<\/p>\nMargery Kempe. The Book of Margery Kempe<\/em>, ed. B.A. Windeatt. New York: Penguin, 1985.<\/p>\nPaul LaChance, O.F.M., trans. Angelo of Foligno: Complete Works<\/em>. New York: Paulist Press, 1993.<\/p>\nKevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek, eds. Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History. <\/em>Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.<\/p>\nJohn Mirk. John Mirk\u2019s \u201cFestial,\u201d <\/em>ed. Susan Powell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.<\/p>\nCoral Neel. Handbook for William: A Carolingian Woman\u2019s Counsel for Her Son<\/em>. Washington D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1991.<\/p>\nChristine de Pizan. The Book of the Cities of Ladies,<\/em> trans. Earl Jeffry Richarsd. New York: Persea, 1982.<\/p>\nChristine de Pizan. The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan<\/em>. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski\u00a0 and Kevin Brownlee, trans. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.<\/p>\nVeronica Mary Rolf. An Explorer\u2019s Guide to Julian of Norwich<\/em> (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2018).<\/p>\nCatherine of Siena. The Letters of Catherine of Siena<\/em>. Suzanne Noffke O.P., trans. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2000.<\/p>\nPatricia Skinner and Elizabeth van Houts, trans. and intro. Medieval Writings on Secular Women.\u00a0 <\/em>London: Penguin, 2011.<\/p>\nElizabeth Spearing, ed. Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality<\/em>. New York: Penguin, 2002.<\/p>\nLarissa Tracy. Women of the Gilte Legende: A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives. <\/em>Woodbridge, UK:\u00a0 Boydell & Brewer, 2014.<\/p>\nJacobus de Voraigne, The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints<\/em>, trans. William Granger Ryan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).<\/p>\nEarly Modern<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong>Lancelot Andrewes, Apospasmatia Sacra: or A Collection of Posthumous and Orphan Lectures Delivered at St. Paul\u2019s and St. Giles His Church by the Right Honourable Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrews. <\/em>London: R. Hodgkinsonne, 1657).<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong>Curtis Freeman. A Company of Women Preachers: Baptist Prophetesses in Seventeenth Century England <\/em>(Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011).<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong>Argula von Grumbach, A Woman\u2019s Voice in the Reformation, <\/em>ed. Peter Matheson. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1995.<\/p>\nWritings of Edward the Sixth, William Hugh, Queen Catherine Parr, Anne Askew, Lady. Jane Grey, Hamilton and Balnaves. <\/em>London: Religious Tract Society, 1836.<\/p>\nWilliam Gouge, \u201cVIII. Duties of Masters,\u201d in Of Domesticall Duties: Eight Treatises <\/em>(London: John Haviland, 1622; Ann Arbor: Text Creation Partnership, 2011).<\/p>\nModern<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong>James Dobson. Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance. <\/em>1987; repr., Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 1998.<\/p>\nElisabeth Elliot. Let Me Be a Woman: Notes to My Daughter on the Meaning of Womanhood<\/em>. 1976; repr., Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2013.<\/p>\nCoventry Patmore, The Angel in the House. <\/em>London: Cassell & Cassell, 1887.<\/p>\nDorothy L. Sayers. Letters to the Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of the Christian Doctrine. <\/em>Nashville: Nelson, 2004.<\/p>\n______________. Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible, and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society<\/em>. 1971; repr., Grand Rapiids: Eerdmans, 2005.<\/p>\nVirginia Woolf, A Room of One\u2019s Own. <\/em>New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929.<\/p>\nIf we going to make lasting change in how women are treated in evangelicalism, we have to address the problems with what evangelicals believe about women\u2013including women in church history. As I wrote in a 2018 blog post,<\/a> \u201cIf Evangelical Christians are going to change their attitudes toward women, they have to learn the important role that women really have played throughout church history. They have to recognize women as leaders, teachers, preachers, evangelists, and apostles\u2013not just as domestic caregivers and support staff\u2026If we want to change attitudes towards women, we have to better educate Christians about the reality of women\u2019s roles in church history.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nTake up and read, y\u2019all, because it is time to change the church.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>I planned this post several weeks ago. Ever since publishing The Making of Biblical Womanhood<\/em>, folk ask me for resources that show the reality of women\u2019s leadership and active role throughout church history rather than what they have been taught in evangelical spaces: a narrative that mostly ignores women and\/or interprets women\u2019s historical participation through the lens of complementarianism. So I planned a series of posts listing historical sources (primary, secondary, and tertiary) that can help reframe our understanding of women in the church.<\/p>\n