TY - BOOK AU - McCarty,VK TI - From Their Lips: Voices of Early Christian Women T2 - Gorgias Handbooks SN - 9781463242558 AV - BR1713 U1 - 270.092/52 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Piscataway, NJ : PB - Gorgias Press, KW - Christian literature, Early KW - History and criticism KW - Christian women saints KW - Biography KW - Church history KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Women in Christianity KW - History KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Christianity KW - Literature KW - Religion KW - RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; FOREWORD --; INTRODUCTION --; I. EARLY VOICES, EARLY WOMEN’S MINISTRY --; CHAPTER I.1 LYDIA: SPEAKING UP TO THE APOSTLES --; CHAPTER I.2 THE VOICE OF ST. THEKLA: INWARDLY TUNED BY GOD1 --; CHAPTER I.3 QUEEN TRYPHAENA: THE LORD’S REFUGE IN HOSPITALITY --; CHAPTER I.4 PERPETUA’S STORY IN HER OWN WORDS: HOPE FACING MARTYRDOM --; II. THE LONG BYZANTINE HYMN OF PRAISE --; CHAPTER II.1 ST. HELENA: BECOMING A CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPRESS --; CHAPTER II.2 DIVINE FIRE: THE MYSTIC ST. SYNCLETICA SPEAKS --; CHAPTER II.3 ST. MACRINA: TEACHING GREGORY OF NYSSA ON THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL --; CHAPTER II.4 THE DEACONESS OLYMPIAS: SOULMATE OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM --; CHAPTER II.5 THE HYMNOGRAPHER KASSIA: CHANTING THE INCARNATION --; III. NEW THEKLAS AND NEW HELENAS --; CHAPTER III.1 EMPRESSES SPEAK OF PHILANTHROPIA: FOLLOWING THE COMMAND OF CHRIST --; CHAPTER III.2 ANNA KOMNENE’S ALEXIAD: THE VOICE OF THE GOOD DAUGHTER (KALE THUGATER) --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDICES; restricted access N2 - The Eastern Church venerates among its saints several Early Christian women whose teaching and wisdom contribute to the depth of our theological heritage. Their inspired voices can be heard at work witnessing: in the New Testament, in the early centuries of the Church Fathers and throughout the Byzantine era. Readers will find this volume bringing female leaders from the Early Church to life from the traditional ancient sources and sharing their experience of the presence of God. Their remembered advice to followers still illuminates issues of faith and justice which bind us together as Christians today UR - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463242565 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463242565 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463242565/original ER -