Denise Rector

Laying out the task for the book/writers in search for a shared language and interests in the territory called “spirituality.”

An article interpreting the changes in women‘s spirituality during the Reformation and women‘s theological contributions in what ensued.

An article comparing Katharina Zell‘s and Luther‘s interpretation and use and theological emphasis with Psalm 51.

Schroeder argues that the earliest martyrdom accounts sensitively acknowledged the sexual assault of Christian martyrs. Later accounts, written after persecution had ceased, stressed the inviolability of the virgin martyr, who remained passive and was protected by Christ, her jealous bridegroom. Thus the literary virgin martyr who was truly faithful could not be raped against her […]

Arcangela Tarabotti, a seventeenth-century Venetian nun, forced into a Benedictine convent against her will, wrote a protest against the involuntary monastic enclosure of women entitled Paternal Tyranny. In what may be the earliest extant example of a woman‘s exegesis of Judges 11, Tarabotti argues that the tragic sacrifice of Jephthah‘s daughter was less violent than […]