2004
Volume 76, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0165-2346
  • E-ISSN: 2773-1847

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Abstract

This article examines, from the perspective of inclusive ecclesiology, the much-discussed turn in the life of Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678): from being the first woman to study academic theology in Western Europe, she became the ‘mother’ of a persecuted sect, abandoning her former life of erudition and artistry. It offers a reflection on how the author’s view of this case has changed over the course of forty years and the role played in this process by various models of interpretation from church-historical and cultural-historical gender studies.

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