Mother Ann Lee
“1st. Because she was woman. 2d. Because she was an inspired woman. 3d. Because she enlarged the scope of religious experience. 4th. Because she unfolded a principle, an idea which no man, not even Jesus, had announced, or, perhaps, surmised.” (Mother Ann Lee The Messiah p.63) Ann Lee, born in 1736, left no written documents that attest to her beliefs. Ann was born to poverty in Manchester, England. As a young adult, she worked many years as an assistant in the clothing industry with no education. At the young age of twenty-two, Ann became under the influence of a couple who formed the team of “Shaking Quakers”, named Jane and James Wadley. Ann Lee taught that God is both a mother and a father; thus the work of redemption must be filled by two Messiahs-the male Jesus and the female Ann Lee. Feminist radicals see Ann Lee as the Mother half of God. Ann Lee stood in an ancient theological tradition of charismatic women who, in their marriage to Christ, expressed their womanhood in a revolutionary manner. Ann Lee remains as an idealistic woman in our society because she paved the way for women in the religious movement of the eighteenth century. She established herself with the forming of the Shakers. A group she founded in
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