Not exact matches
On the Council on Biblical Manhood and
Womanhood Web Site, Wayne Grudem warns that if Christians accept egalitarianism, «we will begin to have whole churches who no longer «tremble» at the Word of God (Isaiah 66:2), and who no longer live by «every word that
comes from the mouth of God» (Matthew 4:4), but who pick and choose the things they like and the things they don't like in the Bible.»
Ranade agreed that «the Christian civilization which
came to India from the West was the main instrument of renewal» of India which finds expression in the new love of municipal freedom and civil virtues, aptitude for mechanical skill and love of science and research, chivalrous respect of
womanhood etc.; and it is interesting that his lecture on his new concept of «Indian Theism» (a redefinition of Visishtadvaita in the light of Protestant Christian thought) as the basis of national renewal of India was delivered in the chapel of the Wilson College Bombay.
Now, today's example
comes from the leader of the Council on Biblical Manhood and
Womanhood, which I (and many others) consider to be a mainstream expression of complementarian values.
One of my biggest concerns about literature
coming out of the contemporary «biblical manhood and
womanhood» movement is that it tends to relegate certain traits to certain genders, and then pit those traits against one another.
My hope is that readers will
come to the end of the book reminded the Bible — this ancient, diverse, powerful, God - breathed text — is far too complex to be reduced to an adjective, and that
womanhood was never meant to be reduced to a list of rules and roles.
What if took the notion of biblical
womanhood literally to show how we all pick and choose when it
comes to applying the Bible?
You have been called to the spirit - filled and God - breathed life so may you live out the ways of Jesus into every corner of your
womanhood, always with an eye on who is alongside of you, ahead of you, and
coming up behind you.
I've heard or read varying degrees of that same attitude when it
comes to some of the conversations about «biblical»
womanhood as people heap guilt on mothers or fathers for everything from choosing public school education to relying on babysitters or daycare, from Sunday School to family structures.
On Saturday, twelve generous ladies
came to my house to act as «servant girls» for a day and help me finish my most daunting sewing / knitting projects for the
womanhood project — a pillow, a dress, and a couple of scarves.
«For some reason, many people are horrified that anyone would write a book that might possibly
come to the conclusion that perhaps June Cleaver, as wonderful as she was, is in fact not the standard for biblical
womanhood.»
Come October 30, you will be able to find A Year of Biblical
Womanhood just about everywhere books are sold.
To make a pundancy regarding «war and genocide and alter boys» is but a bullying statement
coming from someone who themselves are but subliminalised bullies and probably were in their growing aspirations from childhood to teenager and manhood /
womanhood.
The most recent attack on
womanhood is Kennedy Agyapong's attack on the late mother of the president and his siblings and his attack on Afia for asking why he
came up with that attack.
From Code Red by Lisa Lister In lots of cultures around the world, a girl's transition to
womanhood is celebrated in ritual and ceremony; it's the time of
coming into her creative and spiritual power, yet so many women in the western world have lacked this celebratory entry into
womanhood, and this has affected everything from their attitude to their menstrual cycle, to how they view the body they currently reside in and a million things inbetween.
If PMS - based mood disruption isn't a predestined part of
womanhood, then how
come so many women suffer from the same symptoms?
Christine Jeffs) It speaks to the power of this
coming - of -
womanhood fable that I saw it over a year ago and it resonated into 2002, when the picture was finally picked up for North American theatrical distribution.
Part of Christine's trouble — her intense bouts of depression — seem to
come from the feeling that she has somehow failed to navigate
womanhood correctly.
Garance Marillier floats through the
coming - of - age story like a wide - eyed specter, grappling with her
womanhood while trying to satisfy her carnal lust for human flesh.
She's fiercely embodied the power of unbridled
womanhood over the course of three and half decades of cinematic classics — Reversal of Fortune, Dangerous Liaisons, Fatal Attraction, The Big Chill, Damages and (
coming soon) Sunset Boulevard.
Life is hellish for all slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is
coming into
womanhood; even greater pain awaits.
Out of that swirl of emotions
came this collection, filled with hallucinations and snakes, sisters trying to survive, questions of motherhood and
womanhood and more.