Antoinette Clark Wire
- Minneapolis, U.S. A Fortress 1990
- 316tr. hardcover 24cm
Using the tools of the `new rhetoric,` Antoinette Clark Wire uncovers the nature and importance of the women prophets of Corinth. Wire demonstrates that women were an extensive group, most of whom had left family life for community leadership in prayer and prophecy. In contrast to Paul they were not alarmed by divisions and disorder but affirmed the recent changes in their social lives. We learn about their confession of Christ as the wisdom of the one God and about their struggle with Paul to continue their ministry in Corinth.