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A Priesthood of She-believers: Women and Congregations in Mid-seventeenth-century England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Anne Laurence
Anne Laurence*
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The Open University
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This paper considers women’s participation in the congregations of Civil War and Interregnum England. In particular it is concerned with the idea of whether women sectaries in the 1640s and 1650s had a different idea of church polity from their brethren, or whether, within the confines of the sects, they continued to play the role traditionally assigned to women in Christianity: that of the spiritually inspired, the example of holiness rather than the leader. In short, did women even in the sects remain outside the church polity?

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Studies in Church History , Volume 27: Women in the Church , 1990 , pp. 345 - 363
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1990

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