Catherine Booth

Catherine Booth born Mumford ( born January 17, 1829 in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; † October 4, 1890 in Clacton -on-Sea, Essex, England), the wife of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army was. She was deeply involved in its creation and organization and is regarded as a champion for women's rights.

Life

Catherine Mumford was the daughter of a Methodist lay preacher, who enjoyed a well rounded education by her mother and already developed as a child, a Christian motivated sense of social issues. ( At the age of twelve, she should have already read the Bible eight times. ) As a young girl she worked as a secretary for a temperance movement of young people and wrote articles for magazines in which they warned of the danger of alcoholism.

In 1844 she moved with her parents to London. In 1852, she learned that the Methodist New Connexion had joined, know the Methodist minister William Booth. The two found themselves in a common commitment to Christian social action, but were very different opinions when it came to the role of women in the Church: Catherine vigorously advocated the right of women to preach.

In 1855 she married William Booth. In the first years of their marriage they lived according to the role of a Methodist minister's wife and held Sunday school and Bible study for women. At the same time she wrote theological treatises, in which they argued from the Bible for Women's Rights.

1860, when the mother of four children, she held her first sermon. When William Booth began in 1861 to work as a revivalist in Cornwall and Wales, they also preached; three years later it was estimated their sermons even more than his.

When in 1865 the work of the Christian mission, as the Salvation Army was first called, began in London 's East End, she was there from the beginning as evangelistic preacher at the forefront.

From their Christian conviction that she was involved in socio-political, wrote to the Queen and members of parliament, fought against prostitution, demonstrating for better working conditions, particularly for women.

On October 4, 1890, she died of cancer. At her funeral was attended by 36,000 people.

Works

  • To preach the woman 's right, DFS, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-905499-26-6 (Translation of Female Ministry in Practical Religion included).
  • Female Ministry or, Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel (English), 1859 ( in book Papers on Practical Religion included)
  • Female Teaching (English), 1861
  • Papers on Practical Religion ( English), 1879
  • Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons (English), 1881
  • Papers on Godliness (English), 1882
  • Life and Death. Being reports of addresses delivered in London ( English), 1883;
  • The Salvation Army in relation to the Church and State, and other addresses ..., With an appendix on the so - called " Secret Book " ( English), 1883
  • The Iniquity of State Regulated Vice. A speech (English), 1884

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