Petersen, Johanna Eleonora.

The life of Lady Johanna Eleonora Petersen, written by herself pietism and women's autobiography in seventeenth-century Germany / [electronic resource] : edited and translated by Barbara Becker-Cantarino. - University of Chicago Press, c2005. - 1 online resource (xxix, 140 p.) - The other voice in early modern Europe . - Other voice in early modern Europe. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-134) and index.

In a time when the Pauline dictum decreed that women be silent in matters of the Church, Johanna Eleonora Petersen (1644?1724) was a pioneering author of religious books, insisting on her right to speak out as a believer above her male counterparts. Publishing her readings of the Gospels and the Book of Revelation as well as her thoughts on theology in general, Petersen and her writings created controversy, especially in orthodox circles, and she became a voice for the radical Pietists?those most at odds with Lutheran ministers and their teachings. But she defended her lay religious calling an.


Translated from the German.

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Petersen, Johanna Eleonora.


Pietism--Germany.
Pietists--Germany--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--History.
Vrouwen.
Piëtisme.
Pietists--Germany.
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