Women of the Reformed Church
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
“Just as Deborah and Esther, with the Marys of the New Testament, aided in making up Bible history, so the women of the Reformed Church have helped to make her history great.” James I. Good’s Women of the Reformed Church celebrates the spirit and work of women in the history of the Reformed Church from the 16th and 17th centuries, including Anna Reinhard and Idelette D’Bures.
- Preface by the author
- Study on women in the history of the Reformed Church
- Illustrations and index
- Title: Women of the Reformed Church
- Author: James I. Good
- Publisher: Publication and Sunday School Board of the Reformed Church in the United States
- Publication Date: 1901
- Pages: 298
James I. Good (1850–1924) was a noted church historian born in York, PA. Educated at Lafayette College and Union Theological Seminary, Good pastored Reformed churches in Pennsylvania for 30 years and also taught church history at Ursinus College. He was then promoted to the professor of dogmatics and pastoral theology, and then the dean of the school. In 1907, he moved to Central Theological Seminary where he was a professor of Reformed Church history and liturgics. From 1911 to 1914 he was president of the general synod of the Reformed Church in the United States. In recognition of his services as a Reformed Church historian, he was made an honorary member of the Huguenot Society of Germany.