Sentences with phrase «what womanhood»

I think this passion was ignited at such a formative time in my life when I was trying to understand what womanhood was for me that it radically changed my entire relationship with clothing and shopping.

Not exact matches

Rather than debate academic studies about first - century womanhood, why not try out a biblical notion such as head covering and see what happens?

But what makes Jesus Feminist so fantastic, so challenging is Bessey's ability to be both the friend who tells us the truth about «womanhood» inside our churches and the sage who shows us how Jesus embraced equality and how we can do it better.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

In my quest for biblical womanhood, I've found that sometimes there's as much to learn from what the Bible doesn't say as there is to learn from what it does say.

They are also concerned that I presented and explored a variety of divergent perspectives on what «biblical womanhood» means (from Jewish, Catholic, Amish, feminist, polygamist, Christian fundamentalist and complementarian viewpoints, to name a few), including some viewpoints with which they do not agree.

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting On Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master by Rachel Held Evans — A disarmingly funny, wise, honest exploration of what makes a woman «biblical» and the danger of reducing the Bible to an adjective.

Churches are usually pretty good about valuing motherhood, but I think that sometimes the intense focus on that aspect of what Christian womanhood means can lead to us devaluing a lot of other amazing things that women can (and do) do for God.

Piper expands on this idea in his book, Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, in which he advocates for what he calls «non-directive leadership.»

I was 21 or 22 when I began questioning what I'd been taught about what constituted «biblical» politics, «biblical» marriage, and «biblical» womanhood, and wondering if it was wise, or even possible, to reduce the Bible into an adjective.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Arizona State University — Tempe, AZ When: Saturday, January 21, 7 - 9 p.m. Where: Tempe First United Methodist Church What: «A Year of Biblical Womanhood» Hosted by: The Wesley Foundation and Valley Wesley United Methodist Campus Ministry Admission: $ 10, free for students More info

Women's suffrage was not a matter of simple justice but what Elizabeth Cady Stanton called a «new evangel of womanhood.»

And you can always check out A Year of Biblical Womanhood for a creative examination of what the Bible says about women.

As this parody of what she really was, she inspires great art, but she also stands as an obstacle to female social equality by helping perpetuate a stereotype which, whether it is shamed or glorified, demeans womanhood.

Purity that respects the sanctity of womanhood; sincerity that makes your «yea» enough without an oath and your word as good as your bond; magnanimity, like Lincoln's, with malice toward none, with charity for all; kindness which unostentatiously helps one's fellows, the right hand not knowing what the left hand does — all that is livable.

What if took the notion of biblical womanhood literally to show how we all pick and choose when it comes to applying the Bible?

It's ironic that some complementarains have criticized A Year of Biblical Womanhood for employing an inconsistent hermeneutic without seeming to realize that this was exactly what I intended to do with the project.

What does God truly expect of women, and is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood?

So my question for complementarians is this: What is biblical womanhood and who gets to define it?.

For folks who claim to have the corner of the market on «biblical womanhood,» complementarians have been surprisingly unwilling to engage in conversation with me on what the Bible actually says.

On page 254, I quote again from Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood to share what John Piper and Wayne Grudem say there about women teaching and leading in the church.

All of these people have different perspectives on life and faith and the Bible, but what they all have in common is a commitment to some idea of «biblical womanhood.»

I've sat through church services or conferences or workplaces or public arenas where the only women who are visible are the ones who are extremely thin, who are white, who are blonde, who are American, who are fashionably dressed and professionally done - up, who are able - bodied, who are bright without being intimidating, who are pretty without being sexy, who are unthreatening to our status quo of appropriate, who are ticking every box for what our culture tells us is acceptable about womanhood.

People often ask me what on earth was going through my mind when I decided to try a year of biblical womanhood.

This does not make the Bible irrelevant, for what may be most relevant is not a Bible verse about womanhood or divorce but Paul's powerful analysis of the self in conflict as found in Romans 7.

Like, see here, world, see here, Church, this is what it looks like, this is the better story of womanhood here, right before my eyes, sitting beside me in real life.

So, what parts of A Year of Biblical Womanhood created the most discussion in your group?

It seems to me that this whole notion of «biblical womanhood» has become so distorted among its evangelical advocates that no one knows what it means anymore.

UPDATE: For those who think I mean «patriarchy» as an insult rather than a description of reality, consider this: In the current issue of The Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Owen Strachan wrote, «For millennia, followers of God have practiced what used to be called patriarchy and is now called complementarianism.»

While many hail «biblical womanhood» as the ideal, few seem to agree on exactly what it means, and any claim to a «biblical» lifestyle is inherently selective.

What most in the «biblical womanhood» movement are advocating instead is a return to the June Cleaver culture of pre-feminist America, a culture that looked nothing like that of Vashti and Esther, Leah and Rachel, Tamar and Bathsheba, Mary and Martha.

Baylor University Chapel — Waco, TX When: Monday, February 20, 9:05, 10:10, & 11:15 a.m. Where: Waco Hall, Baylor University What: «My Year of Biblical Womanhood» More Info

Fuller Theological Seminary - Pasadena, CA When: Friday, February 24, 7 p.m. Where: Payton, 101 What: «My Year of Biblical Womanhood» More Info

I'll admit that I am at once fascinated, infuriated, and intimidated by the notion of «biblical womanhood» for it implies that the Bible contains a sort of blueprint for what it means to be a woman of God.

«So, imagine my surprise when I opened up A Year of Biblical Womanhood, to find that it was a fun and yet very thoughtful read about what it means to be a woman?

And what do you think about the controversy surrounding the phrase «biblical womanhood»?

Lesbianism squelches the design of otherness by drowning womanhood in a sea of sameness, and in the process loses any concept of what makes the female feminine.

What versions of «biblical womanhood» have you tried on in the past?

What is important for a woman in making this commitment and living it out is a strong sense of self - possession rooted in an awareness of her human dignity before God and the importance of the gift of her womanhood in marriage.

All the things we see brought up in popular culture these days just strike me as absurd, not to mention again, what I have already said, that it is deeply insulting to women, and what is perceived by some to be «womanhood».

Lay midwives would be split into the purists movements who disavow anything but «pain during birth is a right of passage into full womanhood», and those others eager to test out what «really» is the max dose of the medication, because you know, you can't trust what the PDR says....

They were such bold floor - to - ceiling images that they dwarfed the models, physically suggesting what the designer was saying: there was a long way to grow before reaching the heights of womanhood.

looking for woman that overstand soul connections and just bcuz your female doesn't mean you know how to wear you womanhood if you know the shoes fits hit me up and if not YOU know what to do, Blessings.

While much of The World Before Her speaks to global womanhood, other aspects are more specific to India, but that's what gives the film much of its life and spark.

As Nina slowly transforms from little girl into womanhood, we witness what looks like a slow slide towards madness.

In fact, it makes the film overall slower, weighing the audience down with a fancy way of discussing womanhood, which is essentially the steps that Lena is set to go through as she chooses what type of person she wants to be for the rest of her life.

A rollicking, lively, dinner - party conversation about race, class, marriage, creativity, womanhood, and what it means to be American today, The Meaning of Michelle offers a parting gift for a landmark moment in American history.»

In its depiction of the collective experiences of the female characters, what does the book seem to reveal about womanhood?

«Salome is at once the mighty princess who mercilessly seduces men to their downfall and an innocent child on the brink of womanhood... and then there's the Salome created by Oscar Wilde: a mad woman, lurking in the shadows of our souls, a selfish, passionate, willful creature who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.