Inclusive Language in the Churchis a good introduction to questions about language use today that fairly addresses the issues of the language debate. Nancy Hardesty sets out to convince us that inclusive language is appropriate in Christian theology and worship.
Throughout history, women have been at the forefront of church activity. In Great Women of Faith, Dr. Nancy Hardesty details the strength and influence of Christian women since the early Christian era. She documents the lives and activities of women from the ancient, medieval, Reformation, and early American churches whose devotion and virtue caused them to assume leadership roles in the church. Women such as Marcella and Paula (fourth century), Catherine of Siena (fourteenth century), Mary Fisk (seventeenth century), Phoebe Palmer, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Catherine Booth (nineteenth century, and many others, found God's grace sufficient and God's wisdom ample to meet any situation. These women were mystics, nuns, community leaders, social workers, and missionaries dedicated to education, evangelism, and social justice.
In Women Called to Witness, Nancy A. Hardesty locates the roots of American feminism in the evangelical revivals that emerged during the Second Great Awakening of the early nineteenth century. She thus challenges the conventional wisdom that any movement for women's rights is a secular one because religion is inherently oppressive toward women. First published in 1984 and now revised and updated, this book focuses particularly on the followers of Charles Grandison Finney, an evangelist whose revivals spread from upstate New York eastward to New England and westward to Ohio. The author shows that in Finney's brand of revivalism, personal and social salvation were inseparably linked, and thus the evangelical strategies used in spreading the Christian gospel were readily adapted to various social crusades, including temperance, abolition, and eventually suffrage. Hardesty shows that such leaders as Frances Willard, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton all had links to the Finneyite revivals. All were active in the various reforms the revivals spawned. In exploring these women's lives and their religious involvements, Hardesty demonstrates how bonds of sisterhood were forged and how those bonds nurtured the quest for equality, in the home, the church, and society.
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