Extraordinary Women of Christian History: What We Can Learn from Their Struggles and Triumphs

by Ruth A. Tucker

Publisher:

Baker

, 2016

Overview

Discover the incredible women who shaped our faith

Christianity has long been criticized as a patriarchal religion. But during its two-thousand-year history, the faith has been influenced and passed down by faithful women. Martyrs and nuns, mystics and scholars, writers and reformers, preachers and missionaries, abolitionists and evangelists, these women are examples to us of faith, perseverance, forgiveness, and fortitude.

With gracious irreverence, Ruth A. Tucker offers engaging and candid profiles of some of the most fascinating women of Christian history. From the famous to the infamous to the obscure, women like Perpetua, Joan of Arc, Teresa of Ávila, Anne Hutchinson, Susanna Wesley, Ann Judson, Harriet Tubman, Fanny Crosby, Hannah Whitall Smith, Corrie ten Boom, and Mother Teresa, along with dozens of others, come to vivid life. These portraits of women who changed the world--some in small ways, some in significant ways--will spark lively discussion and inspire you to a life of faithful witness.

Key Features

• Offers engaging and candid profiles of some of the most fascinating women of Christian history.
• Unfolds how faith has been influenced and passed down by faithful women.
• Explores portraits of women who changed the world.

Product Details

• Title: Extraordinary Women of Christian History: What We Can Learn from Their Struggles and Triumphs
• Author: Ruth A. Tucker
• Publisher: Baker
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 284
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christian women—Biography; Women in Christianity—History
• ISBNs: 9781493401581, 1493401580
• Resource ID: LLS:9781493401581
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-12T01:54:26Z

About Ruth A. Tucker

Ruth A. Tucker, (PhD, Northern Illinois University) has for more than three decades taught at colleges and seminaries, including Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Calvin Theological Seminary. She is the author of many books, including From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya and Dynamic Women of the Bible. Tucker lives with her husband, John Worst, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.