Baptist women theologians framed motherhood as historical agency toward liberation.

Evidence

Feminist theologians praised and took pride in the mothers of Isaac, Moses, Samson, and other greater or lesser heroes of the Old Testament. They described the women of the Old Testament as providing far more than the bodily receptacles through which great men were born into the world. They were responsible for rearing and molding the sons who would deliver Israel from its oppressors. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 600

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors, in religious register, the logic of patriarchal authority the reader notes as oppressive elsewhere — maternal molding of sons as indirect power. — connects to: Biblical liberation addresses structural sin, not only individual sins. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 84; Black Baptist uplift ideology paired trained women with ministers as racial saviors — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 126; Black Baptist women saw their domestic teaching role as decisive for racial uplift — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 388 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women saw their domestic teaching role as decisive for racial uplift #corroborates (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 388
• Black Baptist uplift ideology paired trained women with ministers as racial saviors #corroborates (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 126
• Black mothers without feminist theory modeled practical liberation for their daughters #exemplifies (0.74) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 19