When women were priests

Informationen zum Autor Karen Jo Torjesen, Ph.D., is the Margo L. Goldsmith Chair of Women's Studies and Religion at Claremont Graduate School in California, and an associate of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. She is widely regarded as a leading authority on women in ancient Christianity. Klappentext This landmark book reveals not only that women were priests, bishops, and prophets in early Christianity, but also how and why they were then suppressed. Zusammenfassung This landmark book reveals not only that women were priests! bishops! and prophets in early Christianity! but also how and why they were then suppressed.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart J. Murphy, Karen J. Torjesen, Karen Jo Torjesen, Torjesen Karen Jo
• Assisted by: Karen Torjesen (Illustration)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1995
• EAN: 9780060686611
• ISBN: 978-0-06-068661-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 202 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Religion: general, HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Gender Studies, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: MILITARY, HISTORY: 21ST CENTURY AMERICAN, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Feminism & Feminist Theory, RELIGION: WOMEN AND RELIGION, RELIGION: Christian Church / General, RELIGION: THEOLOGY