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Abigail – mother of Amasa, Sister of David. I Chronicles 2:15–17 [1]; Abigail – wife of the wicked Nabal, who became a wife of David after Nabal's death. I Samuel 25 [2] ...
She was tortured to death by Quintianus. Cecilia of Rome virgin, martyr Rome. 177 [15] Cecilia was a noble lady of Rome who was martyred after her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and a Roman soldier named Maximus. [16] After their deaths, Cecilia collected their bones and buried them, then preached and evangelised to many people in Rome.
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 ...
[1]: 27 There is evidence of gender balance in the Bible, and there is no attempt in the Bible to portray women as deserving of less because of their "naturally evil" natures. While women are not generally in the forefront of public life in the Bible, those women who are named are usually prominent for reasons outside the ordinary.
Karen L. King, Harvard Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity, writes that the history of women in ancient Christianity has been almost completely revised in the last twenty years. Many more women are being added to the list of women who made very significant contributions in the early history of Christianity.
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
Throughout most of history women were unofficial theologians. They would write and teach, but did not hold official positions in Universities and Seminaries. Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, women theological scholars began to be appointed to formal faculty positions at theological schools.
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