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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
A very powerful book. I'm not 100% sure I agree with everything but it challenged me immensely and gave me a lot to think about. I love how footnoted it was. Entirely readable but still academic.
Why Not Women? explores the role of women in "missions, ministry, and leadership." It emphasizes the very things that grounded my faith as young teenager: Jesus' radical, culture-changing attitude towards women.
The knowledge that this God looked upon women and treated them equally changed the way I approached life. I was raised in the church and God's fair, loving, and just treatment of women should not have taken me by surprise. But it did. I was reading [b:Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with You|29023|Twelve Extraordinary Women How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with You|John F. MacArthur Jr.|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347749967s/29023.jpg|29496] one day when it finally dawned on me how radical and kind Jesus was. It led me to worship. It still blows my mind and steals my heart. In fact, the moment when I first understood the implications of Jesus' conversation with the women at the well, I realized a passionate, awe-filled love for God that has never left me. I cannot overemphasize the sense of value it gave me to know that this Jesus went against all the cultural expectations of his time to bring grace to that woman.
If this book did nothing but remind me of that sense of value, it would have been worth it.
But the authors do more. They engage in a very intense and interesting discussion of the verses that talk about women in the Bible, specifically women in ministry. They look broadly at the historical position of women around the time of Jesus (I will never think of the Greeks the same. What a bunch of...let's keep it G. Idiots.)
The Greeks did not value women. The Romans did not value women. The Jews ignored the very precepts that gave equality to women. Then Jesus came...and kabam. He changed everything.
Cunningham and Hamilton argue that the church, however, belittle women when ignoring their role in church leadership, both in the early church and now.
A very hard, powerful book. Definitely worth reading! I feel like many of the things I have been taught have been challenged, and not in a bad way. This is only the beginning of a larger debate I look forward to exploring. Women pastors (or women in church leadership in general) remain a controversial subject and there are one or two things I'm not sure I totally understood. 1 Timothy 2:11-15 still puzzles me. I think the authors provide a very good option, but they don't explain thoroughly enough how they got to their explanation.
Still. Read it. A book full of grace that goes a long way in restoring the identity and value of women, in the church and out.
Why Not Women? explores the role of women in "missions, ministry, and leadership." It emphasizes the very things that grounded my faith as young teenager: Jesus' radical, culture-changing attitude towards women.
The knowledge that this God looked upon women and treated them equally changed the way I approached life. I was raised in the church and God's fair, loving, and just treatment of women should not have taken me by surprise. But it did. I was reading [b:Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with You|29023|Twelve Extraordinary Women How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with You|John F. MacArthur Jr.|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347749967s/29023.jpg|29496] one day when it finally dawned on me how radical and kind Jesus was. It led me to worship. It still blows my mind and steals my heart. In fact, the moment when I first understood the implications of Jesus' conversation with the women at the well, I realized a passionate, awe-filled love for God that has never left me. I cannot overemphasize the sense of value it gave me to know that this Jesus went against all the cultural expectations of his time to bring grace to that woman.
If this book did nothing but remind me of that sense of value, it would have been worth it.
But the authors do more. They engage in a very intense and interesting discussion of the verses that talk about women in the Bible, specifically women in ministry. They look broadly at the historical position of women around the time of Jesus (I will never think of the Greeks the same. What a bunch of...let's keep it G. Idiots.)
The Greeks did not value women. The Romans did not value women. The Jews ignored the very precepts that gave equality to women. Then Jesus came...and kabam. He changed everything.
Cunningham and Hamilton argue that the church, however, belittle women when ignoring their role in church leadership, both in the early church and now.
A very hard, powerful book. Definitely worth reading! I feel like many of the things I have been taught have been challenged, and not in a bad way. This is only the beginning of a larger debate I look forward to exploring. Women pastors (or women in church leadership in general) remain a controversial subject and there are one or two things I'm not sure I totally understood. 1 Timothy 2:11-15 still puzzles me. I think the authors provide a very good option, but they don't explain thoroughly enough how they got to their explanation.
Still. Read it. A book full of grace that goes a long way in restoring the identity and value of women, in the church and out.