Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry

Margaret English de Alminana, Ph.D. (2012), University of Wales at Glyndŵr, is Associate Professor of Theology at Southeastern University and Executive Director of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. She has authored Removing the Veil (2008), numerous articles, and reviews. Lois E. Olena, D.Min. (2006), Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Jewish Studies at AGTS. She published Stanley M. Horton: Shaper of Pentecostal Theology (2009), Children of the Calling (a co-edited Festschrift with Eric Newberg, 2014), numerous book chapters, and articles.

Contents

List of Contributors
Definitions

Introduction
Margaret English de Alminana

Part I - Biblical and Historical Roots

Women in Ministry: A Pentecostal, New Testament Hermeneutic
Melissa L. Archer

Examples of Women’s Leadership in the Old Testament and Church History
Mimi R. Haddad

Callings, Giftings, and Empowerment: Preaching Women and American Pentecostalism in Historical and Theological Perspective
Zachary Michael Tackett

Part II - Historical Exemplars

Florence Crawford and Egalitarian Precedents in Early Pentecostalism
Margaret English de Alminana

Giving Room to the Anointing: Carrie Judd Montgomery’s Influence on Women in Ministry
Jennifer A. Miskov

Producing Change: Kathryn Kuhlman and Modern Media
Amy C. Artman

A Successful Calling: Women, Power, and the Rise of the American Prosperity Gospel
Kate Bowler

Part III - Global Exemplars

The ‘Outback Spirit’ of Pentecostal Women Pioneers in Australia
Denise A. Austin and Jacqueline N. Grey

Canadian Pentecostal Women in Ministry: The Case of Bernice Gerard and Feminist Ideologies
Linda M. Ambrose

The Holy Spirit and Hospitality: Pentecostal Empowerment for Building Relationships with the World’s 800 Million Muslim Women
Lois E. Olena

Merchandised Women: Priceless, Called, and Empowered
Beth (A. Elizabeth) Grant

Part IV - Distinctive Concerns of Female Leadership and Ministry

Women as Assemblies of God Church Planters: Cultural Analysis and Strategy Formation
Loralie Robinson Crabtree and Joy E. A. Qualls

When Liberation Becomes Survival
Estrelda Yvonne Alexander

Living a Theology of Co-Gender Ministry
Stephanie L. Nance and Ava K. Oleson

Women Praying for Women: Christian Healing Ministry and the Embodiment of Charismatic Prayer
Peter Althouse

Afterword
Appendix A: Testimony of Naomi R. Dowdy
Appendix B: Testimony of Theresa D’Sousa Greenhough

Index