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This is a list of Christian women in the early church who were leaders and members of the early Christian churches and communities. The list is roughly in chronological order of year when they lived or died. For this list the early church is considered to have started towards the end of the 1st century (after the time of the New Testament ...
Desert Mothers Saint Paula and her daughter Eustochium with their spiritual advisor Saint Jerome—painting by Francisco de Zurbarán. Desert Mothers is a neologism, coined in feminist theology as an analogy to Desert Fathers, for the ammas or female Christian ascetics living in the desert of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. [1]
Finally, she agrees to medical treatment only after she sees that it would benefit them, which echoes Christ's submission to God. There is also an implication of Syncletica's role as a spiritual mother; her use of the imagery of feeding is "a theological association of Syncletica's body with Christ's in being 'given' for their disciples". [41]
Augusta of Denmark (1580 – 1639), walked to Lutheran church and refused to attend Calvinist services. Later fired a Calvinist minister and restored the previous Lutheran minister to his position. Anna Maria von Eggenberg (1609-1680), moved court to a city in Hungary where she would be able sponsor Protestant church services.
Mary was the mother of Jesus, and as such is highly venerated within the Catholic Church as the Mother of God. The church holds that she was immaculately conceived and, while betrothed to the carpenter Joseph, Mary was visited by the angel Gabriel who announced that, though a virgin, she would give birth to a son, Jesus. [134]
Mother Leafy Anderson (1887–1927) was an American spiritualist, who was born in Wisconsin in the 19th century. [1] She was a Spiritualist who claimed her mediumship included contact with the spirit of the Native American war chief Black Hawk , who had lived in Illinois and Wisconsin, Anderson's home state.
In many denominations of Christianity the ordination of women is a relatively recent phenomenon within the life of the Church. As opportunities for women have expanded in the last 50 years, those ordained women who broke new ground or took on roles not traditionally held by women in the Church have been and continue to be considered notable.
Mormon scholar Margaret Toscano said LDS teachings frame Heavenly Mother not as an individual, but subsumes her into the Heavenly Parent patriarchal family. [15] Authors Bethany Brady Spalding and McArthur Krishna argued that the idea that a Heavenly Mother is too sacred to speak about in the LDS Church is culturally nonsense. [15]