Women in mission : from the New Testament to today /
Susan E. Smith.
- Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2007.
- xix, 234 p. ; 24 cm.
- American Society of Missiology series ; no. 40 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-227) and index.
Women as co-workers with Paul -- Women as homemakers in the post-Pauline letters -- Women as disciples and prophets in the canonical and apocryphal Gospels and Acts of Apostles -- Missionary women from the second to the fifteenth century -- Missionary women in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries -- Missionary women in the nineteenth century and until Vatican II -- Missionary women since Vatican II -- A feminist missiology for contemporary missionary women.