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Parceiros no casamento e no ministério A Bíblia determina papéis de gênero para homens e mulheres?
Os homens são chamados de forma única para exercer autoridade no...
Ainda Lado a Lado A Bíblia diz que as mulheres devem se limitar a serem auxiliadoras dos homens? As Escrituras proíbem uma mulher de ensinar outros...
Empowered Voices: Scandinavian Women in Early Pentecostalism The invisibility of women in historical research is a problem that requires dedicated attention and concrete efforts to overcome. This...
In the Image of Her The body of the mother is both everywhere and nowhere in the Christian imagination. Western Christianity has long viewed the...
Your Daughters Shall Prophesy In Your Daughters Shall Prophesy, Todd Korpi charts the course for what it means to come alongside female pastors and...
A Year of Biblical Womanhood See what happens when a thoroughly modern woman starts referring to her husband as "master" and "praises him at the...
The Woman They Wanted The Woman They Wanted recounts Shannon's remarkable experience inside Big Church—where she was asked to live within a narrow definition of...
Women of Faith and Courage "Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace..." (I...
Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church, and Ministry, co-edited by Margaret English de Alminana...
Women in the Mission of the Church Recognizing the significance of women's often uncredited but integral roles in the work of the church is not only a...
Women Deacons? The question of restoring women to the ordained diaconate surfaced during the Second Vatican Council and continued to resound in...
Women as Global Leaders Women as Global Leaders is the second volume in a series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that...
Women and the Gender of God A robust theological argument against the assumption that God is male.
While many Christians would readily affirm this truth, the...
Women Caught in the Conflict: The Culture War between Traditionalism and Feminism The goal of this book is not to analyze the competing viewpoints, "women's equality" versus traditional family values" in any...
What Paul Really Said About Women This book covers several topics including where the idea that women are inferior to men began. You will learn about...
Talking Back to Purity Culture The generation born into evangelical purity culture has grown up, and many have started families of their own. But as...
Still Side by Side – Korean "Still Side by Side is an excellent brief summary of the case for biblical equality."-Alvera Mickelsen, Founding Member of Christians...
Stained Glass Ceilings Stained Glass Ceilings speaks to the intersection of gender and power within American evangelicalism by examining the formation...
Ordaining Women B.T. Roberts saw the exclusion of women from ordination as analogous to racism. His ability to see the new community...
The Mary We Forgot In The Mary We Forgot, award-winning church historian and theologian Jennifer Powell McNutt unpacks Scripture and history to reveal the real...
If Eve Only Knew "She is a godly woman." "True love waits." Are these phrases and many others about gender truly based in scripture,...
How God Sees Women "This is, in my opinion, the best book on the complementarian / evangelical egalitarian debate. Buy a copy, buy copies...
Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World: Book Five: Sojourner... Book Five in the Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World series introduces readers to Sojourner Truth, a champion...
Daughters of Wisdom This book offers a window into current realities regarding women's leadership in the global church and explores strategic recommendations to...
Blessing the Curse?: A Biblical Approach for Restoring Relationships in the Church The message of the kingdom of God, as brought to us by Christ, is a message that overturns hierarchies, sets...
Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter Women of the Bible have long been trapped in dry and dusty literary caskets—but no more. In this groundbreaking book,...
Before You Were Born, I Anointed You Prophetic ministry in the Bible has long been perceived as the exclusive domain of individuals who were powerful, authoritative, argumentative,...
Why Can’t Women Do That? In many Christian churches, women are told they can't do certain things simply because they are women. Women can't preach....
What’s with Paul and Women? 1 Timothy 2:11-12 has been used as a "clear" mandate to silence women in the church for over 1500 years....
What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women Kevin Giles has been writing on women in the Bible for over forty years. In this book, What the Bible...
Vindicating the Vixens Christianity Today 5-Star Review Publishers Weekly Review Foreword Reviews Indie Awards Finalist Gain a greater understanding of gender in the...
Valiant or Virtuous? This book explores a systematic bias in translating the Bible and in interpreting its teachings, which suggests that men are...
Unveiling Paul’s Women Whether people realize it or not, the ideas in 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 have had a huge impact on the role...
Unsilenced Many women in the church are not allowed to teach and lead men for one reason; they have been silenced...
Unladylike In the contemporary church, women are held back from positions of authority and leadership simply because they are women. Gender...
Unexpected Love Unexpected Love isan essential read for anyone eager to understand Jesus Christ’s true heart forwomen. We ache for a satisfying relationship...
Underdogs and Outsiders The Bible is full of surprises. At every turn, from the beginning of the Old Testament right through the end...
Under One Steeple Remember the era when people loved living in Christian community? So why not bring that way of life to a...
Two Views on Women in Ministry What does the Bible say about women's roles in the church? With pros and cons on either side of a...
Toujou Kot a Kot Translated into Haitian Creole from the English book, Still Side by Side, Toujou Kòt a Kòt is an introduction to...
Still Side by Side – Russian Still Side by Side is an introduction to biblical equality. Each chapter is introduced with a question and brief answer,...
Still Side by Side – Arabic Still Side by Side is an introduction to biblical equality. Each chapter is introduced with a question and brief answer,...
Still Side by Side-English Are women created to be "helpers" to men? Does Scripture teach that women and men have different roles in the...
She Deserves Better What if the goal of raising a Christian girl was about more than keeping her virginity intact? What if it...
She We are not all the same. The time has come for us to honestly name the ways we are different...
The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity Since the late 1970s complementarian theologians have been arguing that the divine three persons in the Trinity are ordered hierarchically,...
Rediscovering Scripture’s Vision for Women Does God call women to serve as equal partners in marriage and as leaders in the church? With careful exegetical...
Reading While Black Reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition can help us connect with a rich faith history and address...
The Quest for Gender Equity in Leadership The call for gender equity in leadership has become a global concern. From a Christian perspective, all forms of gender...
Paul, Women, and Wives Paul's letters stand at the center of the dispute over women, the church, and the home, with each side championing...
Paul, Women and Church No one has been more maligned and misunderstood than Paul in regards to his views about women. In Paul, Women...
Paul and Gender Christianity Today 2018 Book Award Winner Respected New Testament scholar Cynthia Long Westfall offers a coherent Pauline theology of gender,...
Partners in Marriage and Ministry Does the Bible prescribe gender roles for men and women? Are men uniquely called to exercise authority in marriage and...
Nice Girls Don’t Change the World Margaret Mead said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” My version of...
The New Evangelical Subordinationism? Whether and in what sense the Son of God might eternally submit to his Father's will is a question that...
Mutual by Design Most books on Christian marriage assume that the Bible puts men in a leadership role, while women are to be...
The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry John Wesley promoted the ministry of women in early Methodism. Amazing women like Phoebe Palmer, Catherine Booth, and Frances Willard—founding...
Men and Women in Christ The debate between egalitarian and complementarian views on women in the church and in marriage continues to cause division among...
Man and Woman, One in Christ Man and Woman, One in Christ demonstrates that careful exegesis of Paul's letters affirms the full equality of men and...
Lost Women of the Bible You know the women of the Bible, but you don’t know them like this... It’s easy for Christian women—young and...
Lime Green Each of us, in our own shade of color, says something unique about who God is to the world around...
The Liberating Truth Danielle Strickland contends that women everywhere remain subjugated by cultural norms that tell them to conform, hold back, and turn...
Liberating Tradition Kristina LaCelle-Peterson seeks both to affirm the central place of Scripture in the Christian life and to highlight the liberating...
Let My People Go: a Call to End the Oppression of Women... Patriarchy (the male domination of women) is an oppressive cultural norm with a history that predates Christianity. Fortunately, it is...
Jesus Feminist Gender roles have been debated for centuries, and now Sarah Bessey offers a clarion freedom call for all who want...
Jesus and the Father This book is about the contemporary debate among evangelicals on the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and the controversial issues...
Is Women’s Equality a Biblical Ideal? Should women be allowed to lead in the church and the home? What does the Bible mean when it calls...
Into the Pulpit The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and...
In Her Words Women have played a central - and usually unacknowledged - role in the development of Christian thought throughout history. This...
How Much Is a Little Girl Worth? You're beautiful, worthy, and you should be loved Because of all that you are. Different from anything else in the...
Holding Up Half the Sky Women have played significant roles in ministry and leadership throughout the history of the church and the pages of the...
Head of the House Much has been written to counter the idea that women should assume leadership roles, whether in the church, home, or...
The Gospel According to Eve Do women and men have different intellectual, spiritual, moral, or emotional capacities? Over the centuries, women have read and interpreted...
Good News for Women "Most evangelical discussion of the gender issue has been spent in feverish debate over the exegetical intricacies of the traditional...
God’s Women God's Women—Then and Now presents a biblical theology of women in ministry and leadership. The co-authors begin their approach with...
The Global God A global Christian manifesto in which contributors examine attributes of God--the ones that are most understood in today's culture and...
Gender Roles and the People of God Surveying both the Bible and church history, author and professor Alice Mathews demonstrates the full partnership that God calls men...
Gender, Media, and Organization Gender, Media, and Organization addresses the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women leaders in the media. It explores the impact of...
The Gender Conversation Conversations about gender, both inside and outside the church, can frequently degenerate into stale and rancorous disputes in which predictable...
Gender and Development: A History of Women’s Education in Kenya Onyango uses gender to analyse the role of Christian missions in the education, and societal development, of girls in Kenya....
The Equality Workbook Influenced by the patriarchy of Roman culture and ancient Greek philosophy, church leaders in the 3rd and 4th centuries began...
Equality is Biblical Women have proved their equality with men in leadership, scholarship and exercising spiritual gifts, but traditional interpretations of Scripture mean...
Between The Lines What People Are Saying About Between the Lines... "Heather Preston's Between the Lines...is a powerful biblical study featuring relevant application...
Distorting Scripture? Recent controversies have rocked evangelicalism on the question: Is gender-inclusive language for human beings faithful and helpful in Bible translation,...
Discovering Biblical Equality The conversation about gender roles in Christian life and the church has evolved, but the topic continues to inspire debate...
Dethroning Male Headship The Christian community is divided over the issue of women's equality. This is a unique time in modern history. The...
Destiny Denied Sexism is denounced in the workplace, so why hasn't it been in the church? Barbara Wooten tackles this tough question...
Defiant There would be no Moses, no crossing of the Red Sea, no story of breaking the chains of slavery if...
Cuando la vida y las creencias chocan Este libro establece un nuevo paradigma y definición sobre el significado de la Teología («la teología es una relación») pero...
The Cross and the Tent Peg The skull, the cross, the drink-the symbols of the death of Christ might have their precursors in one of the...
Carved in Ebony Young Readers’ Edition A look at the inspirational lives of ten Black women of faith Do the names Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs,...
Carved in Ebony Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Sara Griffith Stanley, Amanda Berry Smith, Lucy...
Called Out! (Africa) God did not create people to just lounge around in a garden, nap in the sun, and pop grapes. We...
Called Out! God didn't create people to just lounge around in a garden, napping in the sun and popping grapes. We were...
C.A.R.E. Description: ""Only men matter, that is why the Bible only talks about men."" This is an actual quote from a...
Bone of My Bones Bone of My Bones fictionalizes a Biblical equality and mutuality. The "complementarian" debate usually focuses on the realm of theory,...
Bold Girls Speak "Bold Girls Speak inspires girls to go boldly where God calls. This collection of Old and New Testament short stories...
The Bible Vs. Biblical Womanhood The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood by New Testament scholar, Philip B. Payne, presents clear and understandable interpretations of the most...
Being Feminist, Being Christian Can a person be Christian and Feminist at the same time? In these extended essays, authors explore the various intersections...
Becoming His Story We are participating in changes that will soon define this period in history! As followers of Jesus, we want to...
Bado Tuko Sambamba Still Side by Side is an introduction to biblical equality. Each chapter is introduced with a question and brief answer,...
Are Women Human? Introduction by Mary McDermott Shideler. One of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals...
And Marries Another Once divorced, forever barred from church leadership--sometimes even from full fellowship. Isn't that what the plain sense of Scripture teaches?...
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation provides a much-needed introduction to womanist approaches to biblical interpretation. It argues that womanist...
10 Lies the Church Tells Women The Gospel was never intended to restrain women from pursuing God or to prevent them from fulfilling their divine destiny. ...
The Father and the Feminine How should Christians speak of the transcendent yet personal God when our language for persons is almost always gendered? Is...
Confronting Sexism in the Church Despite real progress, women continue to be silenced, wounded, and relegated to the sidelines in our churches. But we can...
Women, Abuse, and the Bible Why are spouse and child abuse so frighteningly common in the church? According to the findings of this book’s contributors,...
The #MeToo Reckoning The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual abuse in every sphere of society, including the church. But all too often, churches...
Women, Men, and the Trinity There is a gridlock in churches today regarding the role of women. This debate extends beyond the relationship between men...
A Call to Action In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world's most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation...
Women Rising