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EIGHT WOMEN OF FAITH
Michael Haykin with Foreword by Karen Swallow Prior
Read the Stories of Eight Remarkable Women and Their Vital Contributions to Church History
Throughout history, women have been crucial to the growth and flourishing of the church. Historian Michael A. G. Haykin highlights the lives of eight of these women who changed the course of history, showing how they lived out their unique callings despite challenges and opposition—inspiring modern men and women to imitate their godly examples today.
Jane Grey: The courageous Protestant martyr who held fast to her conviction that salvation is by faith alone even to the point of death.
Anne Steele: The great hymn writer whose work continues to help the church worship in song today.
Margaret Baxter: The faithful wife to pastor Richard Baxter who met persecution with grace and joy.
Esther Edwards Burr: The daughter of Jonathan Edwards whose life modeled biblical friendship.
Anne Dutton: The innovative author whose theological works left a significant literary legacy.
Ann Judson: The wife of Adoniram Judson and pioneer missionary in the American evangelical missions movement.
Sarah Edwards: The wife of Jonathan Edwards and model of sincere delight in Christ.
Jane Austen: The prolific novelist with a deep and sincere Christian faith that she expressed in her stories.
"The portraits Haykin paints of these wildly different women reduce them neither to their roles nor to their religion, but rather show how their faith informed, shaped, and fulfilled their earthly callings. Furthermore, regardless of their relationships to men (single, married, wife, daughter, mother), the women are presented as individuals in their own right, as influenced as they are influential in the roles they fill. Margaret Baxter and Sarah Edwards, for example, are shown as faithful servants of the gospel who are as much served by as servants to their respective husbands, Richard Baxter and Jonathan Edwards. The theology embodied by the written works of Anne Dutton, Anne Steele, and Jane Austen models the abundance in God’s garden: we can obey the command not to eat the forbidden fruit and still enjoy a feast abundant enough to nourish all of the faithful.
The lives here demonstrate the truth of Jane Austen’s words, applicable to men and women equally, that 'Christians should be up and doing something in the world.' The women in this book, each in her own way, did just that. After reading about them, you will want to, too." (Karen Swallow Prior, from the Foreword)
Michael A. G. Haykin (ThD, University of Toronto) is professor of church history and biblical spirituality at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies. He has authored or edited more than twenty-five books, including Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church.
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