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Mayflower, I think that, by definition, most reformed and presbyterian theology writers will tend to be male. Know of a female writer, Gertrude Hoeksema, but she did not really write theology. She wrote some Bible history lessons for children, as well as some (PR) church history type books.
Beste Bert, leuk om je naast refoforum ook bij puritanboard te mogen ontmoeten!
I used to attend the same church as Starr Meade... She's a good writer and a very nice lady. She actually teaches a class on literature for some of the little homeschoolers out here in Arizona.
Another good Christian writer who is a woman is Nancy Pearcy... TOTAL TRUTH, her book on apologetics, is dynamite and excellent!
But I don't think you're going to find any 'good systematics' by a woman...
How many of the ghost writers for famous speakers and preachers are women?
Ghost-writers for famous preachers? I don't know if I could respect a preacher who used a ghost-writer to prepare sermons! That's terrible. Has that ever happened tewilder?
In the history of women "theologians," the name Anna Maria van Schurman stands out. She was one of the most brilliant intellects of 17th century Europe, male or female. She carried on a famous correspondence with Gisbertus Voetius and Andre Rivet (two geniuses in their own right) about the propriety of women in higher education, including theology. She later became a Labadist (even writing a treatise in 1673 which defended this movement), a group which Wilhelmus a Brakel wrote passionately against.
Anne Hutchinson is another major female "theologian" from the Reformed tradition.
Both of these examples, in my view, represent the dangers of women "theologians."
I guess another important female writer was Queen Marguerite of Navarre. Would not call her a theologian though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_of_Navarre
Correct me if I am wrong Andrew, but Hutchinson's story sounds oddly familiar with the present day Beth Moore being discussed in another thread:
"Hutchinson publicly justified her comments on pulpit teachings, against contemporary religious mores, as being authorized by 'an inner spiritual truth.' Governor Winthrop and the established religious hierarchy considered her comments to be heretical, i.e. unfounded criticism of the clergy from an unauthorized source. In March 1637, the community voted to excommunicate her from the Massachusetts Bay Colony church for dissenting the Puritan orthodoxy. They accused Hutchinson of blasphemy and of lewd conduct. She was put on trial, found guilty and eventually banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony."
Although I am sure we would all agree Moore is no Brilliant Theologian.