what we can learn from their struggles and triumphs Tucker, Ruth 1945- creator author. text bibliography biography miu Grand Rapids, MI Baker Books c2016 2016 monographic eng

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xi, 272 p ; 23 cm. Thecla and early martyrs, monastics, and saints -- Hilda of Whitby and medieval nuns and abbesses -- Hildegard of Bingen and Catholic mystics and scholars -- Katherine Schütz Zell and Protestant reformers -- Theresa of Ávila and sectarian "heretics" -- Susanna Wesley and eighteenth-century evangelists -- Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and American protestant missionaries -- Jarena Lee and African American evangelists -- Elizabeth "Betsy" Fry and women of the social gospel -- Anne-Marie Javouhey and British and European missionaries -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and nineteenth-century poets and writers -- Susannah Thompson Spurgeon and ministers' wives -- Aimee Semple McPherson and pentecostal preachers -- Corrie ten Boom and celebrated speakers and missionaries. Ruth A. Tucker. Includes bibliographical references and index. Christian women Biography Women in Christianity History BR1713 .T828 2016 270.092/52 B 9780801016721 080101672X 2015026964 DLC 150804 20160804125327.0 913557486 eng