# Biblical womanhood

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Feminist
Anne Eggebroten
Grace Jantzen
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Letha Dawson Scanzoni
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Gilbert Bilezikian
Greg Boyd
Gordon Fee
Kevin Giles
Stanley Grenz
Kenneth E. Hagin
Paul Jewett
Roger Nicole
Frank Stagg
William J. Webb
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Don Carson
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Susan Foh
John Frame
Wayne Grudem
George W. Knight III
Albert Mohler
Douglas Moo
Jennifer Morse
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
Dorothy Patterson
Paige Patterson
John Piper
Vern Poythress
Owen Strachan :
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Christine de Pizan
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Edith Stein
Pope John Paul II
Phyllis Zagano
Eastern Orthodox
Frederica Mathewes-Green
Protestant
April Ulring Larson
Catherine Booth
Lise-Lotte Rebel
Katharine Jefferts Schori :
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Biblical womanhood is a movement within evangelical Christianity, particularly in the United States. It adopts a complementarian or patriarchal view of gender roles, and emphasizes passages such as Titus 2 in describing what Christian women should be like. According to author Rachel Held Evans, it is driven by the conviction that "the virtuous woman serves primarily from the home as a submissive wife, diligent homemaker, and loving mother."
Institutions supporting the movement include Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, while organizations associated with the movement include the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Notable writers include Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Dorothy Patterson, Elisabeth Elliot, and Priscilla Shirer. Edith Schaeffer's 1971 book, The Hidden Art of Homemaking, has been described as "perhaps unintentionally, a landmark book for proponents of biblical womanhood."
Held Evans suggests that "biblical" is a loaded term, and argues that adherents have "refused to acknowledge" that their interpretation involves a "certain degree of selectivity". Advocates caution that "most women in Third World countries... would find our American, evangelical stereotype of biblical womanhood completely foreign and often simply physically impossible." Some conservative Christian women have critiqued Evans's interpretation for undermining faith in biblical inerrancy.
In 2010, historian Molly Worthen wrote that "'Biblical womanhood' is a tightrope walk between the fiats of old-time religion and the facts of modern culture, and evangelicals themselves do not know where it might lead."