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

Ann Lee issued the revelation that she had a strong vision of what had happened in the Garden of Eden with the first man and woman, which explains the reason why all mankind was separated from God. Sexual intercourse had been the first and remained the original sin and the primary source of all the problems in the world such as war, slavery, disease, poverty, and the inequality of men and woman. Ann Lee argued that instead of a carnal marriage, one should have a marriage with Christ and that she did. " I feel him present with me, as sensibly as I feel my hands together! I have been walking in fine vallies with Christ, as with a lover. I am married to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my head and my husband, and I have no other! I have walked hand in hand with him in heaven."

the eighteenth century. The Shakers were very aware that their founder's contribution to Christianity exceeded that of the times when Luther and Calvin spread the religious word.

If a representative of radical feminist thought considered the work of Mother Ann Lee and the Shakers, they would have a mainly positive outlook with a few critical comments as well. With regard to the positive thoughts, it is safe to say that th

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