Title Claiming the call to preach : four female pioneers of preaching in nineteenth-century America / Donna Giver-Johnston

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages) : illustrations Contents The call to preach -- History and theology of call : text, tradition, trope, and tactics -- Jarena Lee -- Frances Elizabeth Willard -- Louisa Mariah Woosley -- Florence Spearing Randolph -- Theology and practice Summary "Claiming the Call to Preach traces the history of call through the nineteenth century, at a time when the question of women's call to preach, although seemingly fixed by ecclesial authority and cultural convention, was being raised by courageous women in different settings, through different genres, and to different effect. This book recovers the neglected narrative of women's call to preach through the historical accounts and rhetorical witness of four ground-breaking women preachers: Jarena Lee, Frances Willard, Louisa Woosley, and Florence Spearing Randolph. Scholarship has been written on women who have preached in history, but not on how they managed to claim their call to preach despite the restrictions of gender inequality. This project explores the question: how did women claim their call to preach? Through feminist hermeneutics, this book examines call narratives which used rhetorical strategies to articulate effective arguments for women's call to the preaching ministry of the church. In response, these women received endorsement of their claims to pulpit places, engaged in sacred persuasive speech, and preached as ministers of the sacred office. This project examines women's call to preach-the history and theology, rhetoric and practice, struggle and success, and the necessary work of interpretation and re-interpretation through call narratives. This book concludes with practical applications for contemporary homiletics, showing how historical tradition can be re-invented in order to give women-and anyone struggling with their call to preach-rhetorical tactics and narrative scripts in order to make effective claims to preach today"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed February 8, 2022) Subject Lee, Jarena, 1783- Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898. Woosley, Louisa M., 1862-1952. Randolph, Florence Spearing, 1866-1951. SUBJECT Lee, Jarena, 1783- fast Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898 fast Woosley, Louisa M., 1862-1952 fast Bible -- Feminist criticism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93004310 Bible fast Subject Women clergy -- United States -- History Women clergy -- United States -- Biography African American women clergy -- History African American women clergy -- Biography Preaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century African American women clergy Feminist criticism Preaching Women clergy United States Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2020055046 ISBN 9780197576403 0197576400 0197576389 9780197576397 0197576397 9780197576380

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