Liberating Tradition Women`s Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective

includes index and biblioraphy

Part One: Women`s Identity, Human Identity 1. Made in God`s Image 27 2. Women Characters in Scripture 43 3. Supermodels for Jesus? Christian Women and Body Image 73 Part Two: We`re in This Thing Together 4. The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Strange: Marriages in the Bible 97 5. Mistaking the Industrial Revolution for the Garden of Eden: The Myth of the "Traditional" Marriage 117 6. Two Heads Are Better Than One: Marriage as Partnership 129 Part Three: Women in the Church and the World or Why Watching TV Is Not Enough 7. Seeing the Invisible: Women in the Early Church 151 8. Abbesses, Mystics, and Reformation Women 167 9. Changing the World: Women in Missions, Social Reform, and Church Work in American Evangelicalism 181 Part Four: I Said What I Meant, and I Meant What I Said 10. Not Counting Women and Children: Linguistic Invisibility in the Church 197 11. The Discarded Images: Reasserting Biblical Language for God 205