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 Calvin’s 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.
Jane Dempsey Douglass is Hazel Thompson McCord Professor Emerita of Historical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Douglass is a former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. She is the author of Women, Freedom, and Calvin.