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What Women Want
eBook - Pentecostal Women Ministers Speak for Themselves
ISBN/EAN: 9781532643774
Umbreit-Nr.: 2221324
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 160 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 27.09.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Pentecostal women ministers have been silenced in official conversations about their place in church leadership. What do women ministers believe about family life? Have they been influenced by liberal feminism? Do they really want to be equal ministry leaders with men? What Women Want answers these questions in a first ever empirical study that paints a portrait of what it's like to be a Pentecostal woman minister.
- Kurztext
- This little book of poems reveals how the author has dealt with the grief that accompanied the death of his wife of fifty-nine years. The poems are a conversation on the journey through the grieving process, which perhaps has no end. Yes, they are permeated with a deep faith that there is more to life than merely living and dying. At the same time, they are honest responses to how painful it is to lose your life partner. Many of the poems are autobiographical: about first encounter, marriage, life and love together, and death. The actual physical occurrence of death can be readily described by physicians, but its emotional and life effect is much more illusory. Without question, these poems are simply one person's response to death and grief. They provide no decisive answers on how to respond to either, but if one's open and honest response can help others address such challenges, so be it. The goal of the author is not to provide steps for the grieving, rather through poetry to share the thoughts of the heart and mind as they grapple with death and grief. He avers that through the very difficult process of grieving, which may never completely end, love alone is the key to healing and renewal.
- Autorenportrait
- Kimberly Alexander is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at Regent University School of Divinity. She is the author of<i> Pentecostal Healing: Models of Theology and Practice (2007),</i>as well as numerous articles and book chapters related to Pentecostal spirituality and women in the Pentecostal tradition. She is a past-president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies.<br><br><br><br> James P. Bowers is Director of Graduate Studies at Virginia Bible College and pastor of St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Portsmouth, VA. He is editor of<i>Portrait and Prospect: Church of God Pastors Face the Twenty-First Century</i> and numerous articles and book chapters related to spiritual formation and pastoral practice.<br>