Liberating Tradition Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective

Name: Liberating Tradition Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective
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ISBN: 9780801031793

ISBN-10: 0801031796

ISBN-13: 9780801031793

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kristina LaCelle-Peterson

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Kristina LaCelle-Peterson seeks both to affirm the central place of Scripture in the Christian life and to highlight the liberating nature of the gospel for both men and women. To do this the author considers the biblical ideal for human beings and then proceeds to offer a biblical foundation for each of the topics under discussionidentity, body image, personal relationships, marriage, church life, and language for God. Along the way she examines the cultural nature of gender roles and the ways in which they have become entangled with ecclesial expectations. This book will help women better appreciate themselves as women, gain a better understanding of their value in Gods eyes, and…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.924

Kristina LaCelle-Peterson (PhD, Drew University) is associate professor of religion at Houghton College in Houghton, New York, and is an ordained elder in the Free Methodist Church.



Acknowledgments



Peril and Promise: Women's Experience and the Christian Faith



Women's Identity, Human Identity



Made in God's Image



Women Characters in Scripture



Supermodels for Jesus? Christian Women and Body Image



We're in This Thing Together



The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Strange: Marriages in the Bible



Mistaking the Industrial Revolution for the Garden of Eden: The Myth of the "Traditional" Marriage



Two Heads Are Better Than One: Marriage as Partnership



Women in the Church and the World or Why Watching TV Is Not Enough



Seeing the Invisible: Women in the Early Church



Abbesses, Mystics, and Reformation Women



Changing the World: Women in Missions, Social Reform, and Church Work in American Evangelicalism



I Said What I Meant, and I Meant What I Said



Not Counting Women and Children: Linguistic Invisibility in the Church



The Discarded Images: Reasserting Biblical Language for God


Conclusions: Up and Out


Notes


Scripture Index


Subject Index