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Claiming the Call to Preach - Four Female Pioneers of Preaching in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
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Claiming the Call to Preach - Four Female Pioneers of Preaching in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
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Few debates divide the contemporary church more than the issue of
call. The question of who can be called to preach segregates
denominations, divides people within churches, and undermines its
public witness. Yet, curiously little homiletic attention has been
paid to the issue of call. Because the practice of call has not
been subjected to critical inquiry, it has taken on power. Power
lies hidden in the crevices of the question of who can be called to
preach; power lies in the institutional narrative and approved
stories of call; power lies in the discordant debates, equally in
the stifling silence. Claiming the Call to Preach critically
examines the dominant historical narrative that overtly or covertly
has exercised its power to keep women from preaching. Donna
Giver-Johnston here recovers the histories of four notable female
preaching pioneers who affected change in the religious landscape
of nineteenth-century America: Jarena Lee, Frances Willard, Louisa
Woosley, and Florence Spearing Randolph. These women, diverse in
religion, race, class, and culture each told their story of call in
distinctive ways that articulated strong and effective rhetorical
arguments for ecclesiastical sanction to give them a place in the
pulpit. Recovering their rhetorical witness helps to fill in the
gaps in the history of preaching in America, contribute to research
and pedagogies in the field of homiletics, and provide today's
women-and all candidates for ministry-with different theological
models and narrative strategies by which to effectively interpret
and claim their calls to preach. These women who spoke truth to
power help us reimagine a church today that no longer questions the
legitimacy of one's call to preach, but endorses previously
silenced voices, and is therefore strengthened by women's voices
from the pulpit.
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