Promoting the Methodist Woman Preacher: Phoebe Palmer's Concept of ‘Female Prophesying’ and the Question of Spiritual Authority

Autor: Claudia Jetter

Publikováno v: Wesley and Methodist Studies. 14:50-71

This article investigates the seeming dissonance between Phoebe Palmer's (1807–74) role as a charismatic leader who emphasized an unmediated, literalist approach to the Bible and her adoption of complex historical-critical arguments to defend femal

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https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.14.1.0050

'We believe that we have a right to revelations, visions, and dreams from God'

Autor: Claudia Jetter, Jan Stievermann

Publikováno v: Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society ISBN: 9783839451892
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society ISBN: 9783837651898
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society

This essay compares Joseph Smith Jr.'s and Ralph Waldo Emerson's diverging responses to the crisis of religious authority in early nineteenth-century American Christianity. The writings of both men are interpreted as different, but structurally relat

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839451892-008