Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr

Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr

It is time for Christian patriarchy to end.

Historian Beth Allison Barr shows that biblical womanhood isn't biblical, but arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments. She presents a better way forward for the contemporary church.

Throughout this book, Barr talks about how her world was transformed. Readers should be ready to have their worlds transformed too. The Making of Biblical Womanhood is about unmaking the harmful patterns of patriarchy in the church, society, and our own hearts.
--Jemar Tisby, CEO of The Witness Inc.; New York Times bestselling author of The Color of Compromise

This fervent, bold, and sweeping history of Christianity and patriarchy is an absolute game changer. Any future debates will need to reckon with Barr's contention that the subjugation of women has nothing to do with gospel truth.
--Kristin Kobes Du Mez, professor, Calvin University; author of Jesus and John Wayne

This book has the power to help Christians build a faith where 'there is neither male nor female, ' to liberate women from patriarchal hierarchies, and to heal the pain inflicted by countless churches. I have waited my entire adult life for a book like this.
--Jonathan Merritt, contributing writer for The Atlantic; author of Learning to Speak God from Scratch

It's time--no, it's way past time--that we take a critical look at how complementarians have been leaving women leaders and teachers out of church history books and expose the movement of 'biblical womanhood' for what it is. Read this book and be challenged and encouraged.
--Aimee Byrd, author of Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and No Little Women

Barr's careful historical examples drawn especially from medieval history hold together a brilliant, thunderous narrative that untells the complementarian narrative. I could not put this book down.
--Scot McKnight, professor, Northern Seminary

A powerful work of skillful research and personal insight.--Publishers Weekly

Barr, Beth Allison: - Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women's history, and church history. She is the president of the Conference on Faith and History and is a member of Christians for Biblical Equality. Barr has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, and Religion News Service, and is a regular contributor to The Anxious Bench, the popular Patheos website on Christian history.

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ISBN 13	9781587435348
ISBN 10	1587435349
Title	Making of Biblical Womanhood
Author	Beth Allison Barr
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Brazos Press
Year published	2021-04-20
Number of pages	256
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