[Quaker Women between Light Within and Bible]. This essay has been published among the proceedings of the conference on The Bible in the Interpretation of the Women held at Napoli in May 1999 (there was not a call for paper for the conference, all the speakers were invited by the scientific committee and the volume has been peer-reviewed). The Quaker concept of the Inner Light led to an underestimation of the Scriptures whose reading was considered useful only if it was made with the same spirit with which they were written. The essay reconstructs the dialectic relationship between the reading the Bible and the action of the Spirit among the women of the Quaker movement in the seventeenth century. It also examined Women’s Speaking Justified of 1666 where Margaret Fell claims women’s right to speak and to preach through the use of scriptural evidence and The Sayings of Women Which Were Spoken Upon Sundry Occasions in Several Places of the Scriptures to Shew How the Poured Out His Spirit Upon Lord the Whole House of Israel, not only on the Male, but Also on the Female of 1683 in which Elizabeth Bathurst writes a sort of female bible choosing scriptural passages that see women on the foreground. The ‘gender’ reading of these early Quaker texts shows the importance of the female intellectual presence in the early years of the movement.
Donne quacchere tra Luce Interiore e Bibbia
VILLANI, STEFANO
2002-01-01
Abstract
[Quaker Women between Light Within and Bible]. This essay has been published among the proceedings of the conference on The Bible in the Interpretation of the Women held at Napoli in May 1999 (there was not a call for paper for the conference, all the speakers were invited by the scientific committee and the volume has been peer-reviewed). The Quaker concept of the Inner Light led to an underestimation of the Scriptures whose reading was considered useful only if it was made with the same spirit with which they were written. The essay reconstructs the dialectic relationship between the reading the Bible and the action of the Spirit among the women of the Quaker movement in the seventeenth century. It also examined Women’s Speaking Justified of 1666 where Margaret Fell claims women’s right to speak and to preach through the use of scriptural evidence and The Sayings of Women Which Were Spoken Upon Sundry Occasions in Several Places of the Scriptures to Shew How the Poured Out His Spirit Upon Lord the Whole House of Israel, not only on the Male, but Also on the Female of 1683 in which Elizabeth Bathurst writes a sort of female bible choosing scriptural passages that see women on the foreground. The ‘gender’ reading of these early Quaker texts shows the importance of the female intellectual presence in the early years of the movement.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
