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  2. Women in the Protestant Reformation - Wikipedia

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    The status of Women in the Protestant Reformation was deeply influenced by Bible study, as the Reformation promoted literacy and Bible study in order to study God's will in what a society should look like. This influenced women's lives in both positive and negative ways, depending on what scripture and passages of the Bible were studied and ...

  3. Argula von Grumbach - Wikipedia

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    Argula von Grumbach. Argula von Grumbach (née von Stauff; 1492 – c. 1554) was a Bavarian writer and noblewoman who, starting in the early 1520s, became involved in the Protestant Reformation debates going on in Germany.

  4. Katharina Zell - Wikipedia

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    Katharina Schütz Zell (1497/98 – 5 September 1562) was a Protestant reformer and writer during the Protestant Reformation. [1] She was one of the first Protestant women to marry a clergyman. [2] Katharina lived all of her life in Strasbourg. [2]

  5. Women in Church history - Wikipedia

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    Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...

  6. Katharina von Bora - Wikipedia

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    Katharina von Bora (German: [kataˈʁiːnaː fɔn ˈboːʁaː]; 29 January 1499? – 20 December 1552), after her wedding Katharina Luther, also referred to as "die Lutherin" ('the Lutheress'), [1] was the wife of the German reformer Martin Luther and a seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation.

  7. Women as theological figures - Wikipedia

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    Women are slowly being recognized as theological scholars. George Gallup Jr. wrote in 2002 that studies show women have more religiosity than men. Gallup goes on to say that women hold on to their faith more heartily, work harder for the church, and in general practice with more consistency than men. [1]

  8. Marie Dentière - Wikipedia

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    The only woman's name on the Reformation Wall in Geneva. Marie Dentière (c. 1495 –1561) was a Walloon Protestant reformer and theologian, who moved to Geneva.She played an active role in Genevan religion and politics, in the closure of Geneva's convents, and preaching with such reformers as John Calvin and William Farel.

  9. Margaret Wilson (Scottish martyr) - Wikipedia

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    Millais' illustration of Wilson's martyrdom, published in Once A Week, July 1862. The Covenanter movement to maintain the reforms of the Scottish Reformation came to the fore with signing of the National Covenant of 1638 in opposition to royal control of the church, promoting Presbyterianism as a form of church government instead of an Episcopal polity governed by bishops appointed by the Crown.