1st Edition

Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers

Edited By Julie Melnyk Copyright 1998
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1998. This collection of original essays identifies and analyzes 19th-century women's theological thought in all its diversity, demonstrating the ways that women revised, subverted, or rejected elements of masculine theology in creating theologies of their own. While women's religion has been widely studied, this is the only collection of essays that examines 19th-century... Read more
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Biography

Julie Melnyk received her M.Phil. from Oxford University and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She is now Assistant Professor of English at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri. Her publications include reviews for Victorian Prose and an article on Evangelical magazines for Victorian Periodicals Review. She is currently co-editing, with Nanora Sweet, a volume of essays on Felicia Hemans.

"...original in its subject matter and ambitious in its claims." -- Victorian Studies