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It contains hymns and nearly 3,000 devotional, missionary, temperance, and miscellaneous poems, the work of about 820 women in the preceding 340 years. There are brief biographies and musical settings, [2] as well as 140 pieces of music. [3] The larger part of the material was the product of living women.
Christian poetry is any poetry that contains Christian teachings, themes, or references. The influence of Christianity on poetry has been great in any area that Christianity has taken hold. Christian poems often directly reference the Bible, while others provide allegory.
Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people
Her main collection of poems is a manuscript composed of ten mainly religious poems dedicated to the Countess of Caithness. She also wrote on political matters: some of her best known works is a poem called Anagramme on his Ma[jes]ty , intend to encourage Charles II to be a good king, and a eulogy to Lord Lovat . [ 1 ]
For example, she was a friend of Walter and Phoebe Palmer, "the mother of the holiness movement" [67] and "arguably the most influential female theologian in Christian history", [68] and their daughter Phoebe Knapp, with whom she wrote "Blessed Assurance"; she often visited the Methodist camp grounds at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, [69] as their ...
Gwerful Mechain lived in Mechain in Powys.Little is known of her life, but it is generally accepted that she was a descendant of a noble family from Llanfechain. [1]Her father was Hywel Fychan of Mechain in Powys, [2] her mother was named Gwenhwyfar, and she had at least four siblings (three brothers and a sister).
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 ...
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.