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March 27, 2009
Fowler Lecture To Focus On American Women Evangelists
A leading scholar in the field of women evangelists will give the Marie NeSmith Fowler lecture at Samford University Tuesday, March 31.
Priscilla Pope-Levison, author of Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists, will speak at 10 a.m. in Reid Chapel. The event is free-of-charge and open to the public.
Dr. Pope-Levison will discuss the varied ways women have felt the call to evangelistic ministry, the methods they adopted as evangelists, and the institutions they founded, including schools, denominations and churches.
Professor of theology and assistant director of women's studies at Seattle Pacific University, Pope-Levison is an ordained Methodist minister who has served as a church pastor and a college chaplain.
In her research, she has uncovered fascinating primary sources-sermons, articles, diaries, letters, speeches and autobiographies-that bring women evangelists to life. In addition to her book on women evangelists, she is the author of Evangelization from a Liberation Perspective and co-author of Jesus in Global Contexts and Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible.
The lecture series, sponsored by Samford's Christian Women's Leadership Center, honors the late Mrs. Fowler of Hartselle, a Samford graduate who was one of the first female pharmacists and pharmacy owners in Alabama.
