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8 - Gender and Theology in the Reformation Era

from Part One - Theology in an Age of Cultural Transformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2023

By
Kenneth G. Appold
Edited by
Kenneth G Appold  and
Nelson Minnich
Kenneth G Appold
Affiliation:
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
Nelson Minnich
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

One used to read, in older studies of women in the Reformation, that women were “silenced” during this period. That view has some merit. Surveying the many authors of the era’s elite theological discourse, women are hard to find. In fact, only one woman of the Reformation era has been acknowledged by her own tradition as a “doctor of the church,” and thereby identified as an authoritative contributor to doctrinal theology. She is Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582), and it did not happen until 1970.

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The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology , pp. 134 - 148
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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