Mamas on Mission:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Mamas on Mission: "
Laura Chevalier

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077633
Doc. No	:	LA121262
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15733831-12341653‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Laura Chevalier
Title & Author	:	Mamas on Mission: [Article] : Retracing the Church through the Spiritual Life Writing of Single Female Evangelical Missionaries\ Laura Chevalier
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Mission Studies
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	36/2
Page No	:	289–313
Abstract	:	This article plumbs the spiritual life writing of two twentieth-century single female evangelical missionaries, Lillian Trasher and Dr. Helen Roseveare, for evidence of the church. It rests on concepts of feminine spirituality and the history of women and mission. The historical analysis traces the women’s lives from their early formation through their mission work and looks at six themes of the church on mission that emerged from their writing. It argues that they served as mamas of the church in their contexts by nurturing life through their acts of compassionate care. Their small but deliberate acts of sacrifice and service continue to pose missiological invitations and challenges to the church. Therefore, the article also builds an initial “mama theology” of the church on mission by examining where images in Isaiah and impulses in mission today intersect with the themes in the women’s writing. This article plumbs the spiritual life writing of two twentieth-century single female evangelical missionaries, Lillian Trasher and Dr. Helen Roseveare, for evidence of the church. It rests on concepts of feminine spirituality and the history of women and mission. The historical analysis traces the women’s lives from their early formation through their mission work and looks at six themes of the church on mission that emerged from their writing. It argues that they served as mamas of the church in their contexts by nurturing life through their acts of compassionate care. Their small but deliberate acts of sacrifice and service continue to pose missiological invitations and challenges to the church. Therefore, the article also builds an initial “mama theology” of the church on mission by examining where images in Isaiah and impulses in mission today intersect with the themes in the women’s writing.
Descriptor	:	church
Descriptor	:	evangelical
Descriptor	:	history
Descriptor	:	Isaiah
Descriptor	:	missiological applications
Descriptor	:	mission
Descriptor	:	spiritual life writing
Descriptor	:	women
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15733831-12341653‬