Good News for Women: A Biblical Picture of Gender Equality
Groothuis, a former staff member of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, addresses here the issue of women and Christian ministry from an evangelical feminist point of view, with particular attention to biblical texts that evangelicals have misused to bar women from the ministry and enforce women's functional subordination both in general and especially in marriage. The author defends human equality as the basic, inherent, and universally applicable biblical teaching; she addresses traditionalist proof texts, showing that mistranslation, cultural bias, or local situation account for their seeming deviation from biblical principle. Finally, she explicitly addresses women's place not only in the ministry but also in marriage, finding mutual authority and mutual submission the best model to support Christian family and ministry. Highly recommended for public and seminary libraries.?Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood Coll., Farmville, Va.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.