Description
Book SynopsisOffers a clear perspective on the issues Christian women face in the twenty-first century and shows how the Bible is a liberating and enriching book for women.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Peril and Promise: Women's Experience and the Christian Faith
PART ONE: Women's Identity, Human Identity
Chapter 2: Made in God's Image
Chapter 3: Women (Characters) in Scripture
Chapter 4: Supermodels for Jesus? Christian Women and Body Image
PART TWO: We're in this Thing Together
Chapter 5: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Strange: Marriages in the Bible
Chapter 6: Mistaking the Industrial Revolution for the Garden of Eden: The Myth of the "Traditional" Marriage
Chapter 7: Two Heads Are Better than One: Marriage as Partnership
PART THREE: Women in the Church and the World (or Why Watching TV Is Not Enough)
Chapter 8: Seeing the Invisible: Women in the Early Church
Chapter 9: Abbesses, Mystics, and Reformation Women
Chapter 10: Changing the World: Women in Missions, Social Reform, and Church Work in American Evangelicalism
PART FOUR: I Said What I Meant, and I Meant What I Said
Chapter 11: Not Counting Women and Children: Linguistic Invisibility in the Church
Chapter 12: The Discarded Images: Reasserting Biblical Language for God
Chapter 13: Up and Out: Conclusions
