Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity

by Luise Schottroff

Overview

Lydia's Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theological topics in New Testament, such as the revelation of God and the daily life of the church. Schottroff's work demonstrates how women were embedded in their social world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664226084
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	10/01/1995
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)

About the Author

Luise Schottroff teaches New Testament and feminist theology at the University of Kassel in Germany, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including Let the Oppressed Go Free (WJK).

Editorial Reviews

This is clearly an important book, and it is going to make many Christians distinctly uncomfortable. Schottroff makes the splendidly researched argument that women in the early church were fully participating members in the body of Christ, and that it was only as the church institutionalized that they were relegated to the role of serving and merely swelling the ranks of the traditional church. Her careful documentation of the first generation of Christian women provides wonderful testimony to the courage and spirit-filled possibilities of the early church. But this is more than just narrative; Schottroff provides an illuminating methodology for how we might understand the Bible as a source of life-giving power for the everyday life of women. As a result Lydia's Impatient Sisters is that rare combination; a scholarly text accessible to both the clergy and the layperson. (Nov.)

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