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Book Review: Is It Okay to Call God "Mother"?: Considering the Feminine Face of God

By: Mary Seltzer | October 31, 1999

Intellectually we know God is beyond gender; however, using only masculine pronouns sends image-shaping messages to our hearts and minds that are incorrect. By neglecting the feminine imagery for God, we have distorted our understanding of God.

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Book Review: Priscilla's Letter

By: Estella B. Horning | October 31, 1998

Ruth Hoppin has spent decades researching Adolf Harnack's hypothesis that Priscilla wrote the biblical Epistle to the Hebrews. A first book, Priscilla, Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, was published in the late 1960s. Since that time additional relevant material has been published, some of it related to the Dead Sea Scrolls. This book [...]

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Book Review: Women and Men: Gender in the Church

By: James R. Beck | October 31, 1998

The book's thirteen chapters deal with the many facets of concern that arise when we seek to examine the issue of gender and the church: the theology of gender, gender in the Bible, sex differences, homemaking vs. careers, masculinity and femininity, violence and gender, aging, singleness, racial ramifications of gender, and parenting concerns.

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Book Review: Good News for Women

By: Kevin Giles | September 5, 1998

This is the best semi-popular book on this topic so far. No other evangelical book takes up the debate on a broad front and at a theological level as well as Groothuis' work. Her analysis of the issues is brilliant, and her critique of the contemporary arguments for the permanent functional subordination of women in [...]

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Book Review: Women as Risk-Takers for God

By: Frances Hiebert | April 30, 1998

In 1991 Lutz met with leaders of two other global women's movements, the Women's Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship and the Lausanne Women's Network, to see how they could work together. A book committee was set up to include representatives of the three groups, and Lutz was commissioned to do the writing.

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Book Review: God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission

By: James R. Beck | April 30, 1998

God's Daughters is an ethnographic analysis of Women's Aglow Fellowship, a 30-year-old women's organization that originally developed out of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International. Women's Aglow is the largest interdenominational women's mission organization in the world. 

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Book Review: What Does She Want From Me Anyway? Honest Answers to the Questions Men Ask About Women

By: James R. Beck | March 5, 1997

Holly Phillips has written her book from the heart of the Promise Keepers movement (literally and figuratively). Holly is the wife of founding president Randy Phillips, has been a PK staff member from its early days, and was the first woman to address a PK rally. Her book gives us a fascinating glimpse into the [...]

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The Scholarship of Patriarchy (On 1 Timothy 2:8-15)

By: Alan G. Padgett | January 30, 1997

One of the most hotly contested passages in the New Testament these days is 1 Timothy 2:8-15. The cultural reason for this is clear: The ordination of women in the Church is a major issue of debate among traditional and evangelical denominations. Biblically-minded Christians are rightly concerned about the meaning of this passage for ministry today. [...]

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Book Review: My Daughter a Preacher!?!

By: James R. Beck | October 31, 1996

While this book does not explore new territory regarding the issue of women in ministry, it does serve a useful purpose: This is an ideal book to give your pastor, especially if he is straddling the fence on this issue. One pastor speaking to other pastors can have a powerful impact.

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Book Review: Women Caught in Conflict

By: Frances Hiebert | October 31, 1996

Groothuis clearly defines and describes Evangelical Feminism in contrast to other forms of feminism and in distinction from "traditionalism." Two other areas treated in the book make significant contributions from my point of view. One is the historical evidence that the church has accepted in its view of the role of women from the culture, [...]

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