Women Freedom and Calvin: The 1983 Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures (Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures 1983.)

Freedom as understood by John Calvin and as applied to the role of women in church and society is the subject of this provocative book. Putting into perspective discussions about women in the church particularly their ordination Jane Dempsey Douglass looks not only at Calvins Institutes but also at the work of humanists who were contemporaries of the Reformer along with writings by and about women that could have influenced him.