Sentences with phrase «womanhood which»

He never resolved the conflict between the larger vision of womanhood which he saw and the actual status of woman as man's inferior.

Not exact matches

They were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, but they were also protesting the limits and expectations placed on American womanhood, demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies and education and employment opportunities.

In more recent years, I've repeatedly seen the encouragement and value women have found in discovering the same things: the relief that following Christ doesn't mean forcing themselves into a box labelled «womanhood», which narrowly defines the life they should lead and sometimes restricts their gifts and calling.

It was cold and raining and I was in a bad mood because the womanhood project requires that I grow out my hair, which is thick and unruly and frizzy in the rain, and so just five months into the project it looks as though a small animal has died on my head.

... Which is one of many reasons why I wrote A Year of Biblical Womanhood.

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.

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

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.

And so part of the reason for exploring everything from Leviticus 18, to Proverbs 31, to Song of Solomon, to the epistles of Peter and Paul, was to show just how much this phrase — «biblical womanhood» — really entails, and to not take the hermeneutical devices with which Christians are so familiar for granted.

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.

Piper is one of the founders of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood — a flagship organization for the complementarian movement in America — which is now led by Owen Strachan.

But Evans bridges the divide between the belts in her new book, The Year of Biblical Womanhood, the result of an experiment in which she lived the Old and New Testament's instructions for women as literally as possible for an entire year.

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.

Last week, we talked about the way in which the word «biblical» gets tossed around so carelessly these days — «biblical» politics, «biblical» courtship, «biblical» economics, «biblical» manhood, «biblical» womanhood — and how any claim to a biblical lifestyle or perspective is inherently selective.

[It should be noted here that complementarian notions of manhood and womanhood tend to be based on culturally — influenced stereotypes, many of which project idealized notions of the post-industrial revolution nuclear family onto biblical texts rather than taking those texts on their own terms — a topic we've discussed at length in the past and will continued to discuss in the future.]

My goal is to make readers first laugh, and then think, about the ways in which we invoke the phrase «biblical womanhood,» because I believe both the Bible and womanhood are more complex than a list of rules and acceptable roles.

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.

While I'd like to think that A Year of Biblical Womanhood is a humorous and disarming critique of overzealous attempts to prescribe «biblical womanhood,» I still struggle sometimes to articulate the alternative... which brings me to some important questionsWomanhood is a humorous and disarming critique of overzealous attempts to prescribe «biblical womanhood,» I still struggle sometimes to articulate the alternative... which brings me to some important questionswomanhood,» I still struggle sometimes to articulate the alternative... which brings me to some important questions for you:

After a long and successful battle for expanded opportunity, modern womanhood needs reemphasis upon the spiritual factors which make not so much for extension as for depth.

I'm halfway through my year of biblical womanhood, and so far I've done a good job keeping all of my self - imposed ten commandments, # 8 of which is «Thou Shalt Not Teach in Church.»

CNN: «Bible Belt» meets «Borscht Belt» Rachel Held Evans bridges the divide between the belts in her new book, «The Year of Biblical Womanhood,» the result of an experiment in which she lived the Old and New Testament's instructions for women as literally as possible for an entire year.

At some point Dan and I flew into New York City during a hurricane, got interviewed on The Today Show and The View, and celebrated the release of A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which you helped catapult to the New York Times Bestseller list for ebooks.

As I said before, the modern - day «biblical womanhood» movement as expressed by complementarianism, has its roots, not in the ancient near Eastern culture in which the Bible was written, but in the pre-feminist American culture.

(If you want to read more, here are two good books which lay out the issues: Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and Beyond Sex Roles.)

Today I've been busy preparing for a Tuesday meeting with Thomas Nelson in which we will discuss marketing and publicity strategies for A Year of Biblical Womanhood.

In fact, in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood — the manual of sorts for the complementarian movement — John Piper provides a continuum along which Christian women (and the Christian men who might employ them) can plot the appropriateness of various occupations along two scales: 1) how much authority the woman has over men, and 2) the degree to which the relationship is personal between the woman and the men with whom she works.

At first this seems a poor substitute for the economic and domestic freedom of womanhood but in fact it was not so much a substitute as a creative idea, which, once set at work, could not be stayed in its leavening power.

[* JI Packer, for example, wrote in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood that «a situation in which a female boss has a male secretary puts a strain on the humanity of both...» Not all complementarians would agree the hierarchy between men and women extends beyond the home and church.]

[Rabbit Trail: This idea could be applied to our lengthy discussion on womanhood — which McKnight covers extensively at the end of the book, and to which we will return.

As I said before, these are just general observations I've made about humor and satire through the years, and some principles I worked really hard to incorporate into A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which included quite a bit of both.

I have just one week left in my year of biblical womanhood, which means I am days away from a much - needed haircut and the ceremonial packing - away of my many head coverings.

This may seem like an unremarkable turn of events, but according to Grant Castleberry of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (flagship organization for the complementarianism movement, which advocates hierarchal gender roles in the home, church, and society), it represents a severe «cultural capitulation» which, «instead of helping guide children towards embracing who they actually are, blurs reality,» «confuses them,» and «drags them through the dark labyrinths» of their parents» gender - based delusions.

To love included not only the vagaries of circumstances — annoyance, anger, pleasure, laughter — but the growth from a childhood emotion, through all the changing years of becoming womanhood, to that which finally emerged in these last twenty years as an ever - deepening friendship.

Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals Response To «Petition the CDC: Women and medical professionals need accurate information on family planning» by Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (FACTS) and Natural Womanhood The Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals (AFAP) is grateful to the Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (FACTS) and Natural Womanhood (NW) for opening this public conversation, which raises -LSB-...]

The Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals (AFAP) is grateful to the Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (FACTS) and Natural Womanhood (NW) for opening this public conversation, which raises important issues regarding the statistical effectiveness of Fertility Awareness Based Methods (FABMs).

And this is where Tully becomes all about the condition of women today, and an even more extraordinary cinematic depiction of womanhood... or at least of the big slice of womanhood that is overachieving, fiercely independent — which is true of Marlo even though she is married, to Drew (Ron Livingston: The 5th Wave, Vacation)-- and proud of her own smarts and abilities.

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.

That attitude is moreover authorized and encouraged by the society in which they live, and it is reinforced still further by the notion that womanhood remains incomplete and thwarted without a child.

Current projects include In the Shadow of the Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic Practice, which explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black womanhood in Western art from the late - eighteenth century to the present, and a companion volume — tentatively entitled Touched by the Mother: Contemporary Artists, Black Masculinities, and the Ends of the American Century — that brings together many of his new and previously published critical essays.

«In this painting, Saville appears influenced by Cindy Sherman, particularly her film stills in which she challenges the dominant cultural stereotypes surrounding womanhood,» says Katharine Arnold.

Her visual approach to fabrics transforms decorative accessories into emotional and personal references which, especially in her Cells and later in her drawings, create representations of a tormented and at the same time powerful womanhood.

His intensely complicated abstract paintings of the 1940s were followed by images of Woman, grotesque versions of buxom womanhood, which were virtually unparalleled in the sustained savagery of their execution.

Evelyn Taocheng Wang's exhibition title Four season of women tragedy refers to the phases which are characteristic to womanhood, according to Wang's fantasies.

Since her invention in 1959, Barbie has served as a body onto which ideas of womanhood and femininity have been mapped.

According to Gilbert and Gubar, the female «angel» represents patriarchy's codification of ideal womanhood, which holds that «woman's power is not for rule, not for battle, and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for «sweet orderings» of domesticity.»

The symbol of this practice is the triskele, which signifies the three phases of womanhood: the transformation from girl to woman, from woman to mother, and finally to a wise woman.

I don't begrudge them for doing what the Lord says they should which is take care of their families first, but I miss Biblical Womanhood.