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"She is a godly woman." "True love waits." Are these phrases and many others about gender truly based in scripture, or based on dusty, outdated stereotypes? And how do these perceptions repress people, especially women, from fully expressing their faith?If Eve Only Knew offers a fresh perspective on gender and the Bible, destroying trumped-up, captive-creating messages with the freeing proclamation grounded in Jesus' ministry and found everywhere in scripture: that we are all created in God's image, and by relying on our gifts and skills-rather than on gender-designed roles-we become all God means for us to be.

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Publié par	Chalice Press
Date de parution	28 juillet 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780827216723
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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“If Eve Only Knew challenges pervasive evangelical teaching about ‘biblical’ womanhood and manhood, arguing that it is both damaging and unbiblical. Authors Kendra Weddle Irons and Melanie Springer Mock are great teachers and fine writers, and this engaging book shows their depth in understanding the contemporary conversation, biblical teaching, and historical theology. This fun, disturbing, and hopeful read will help both men and women explore the wonder of what it means to be made in God’s image.” — Howard R. Macy, George Fox University

“Kendra Weddle Irons and Melanie Springer Mock lay out the big picture view of evangelical Christianity’s long patriarchal hold on the minds, bodies, and voices of girls and women. In an important indictment of the culture of shame and silence, the authors trace the detrimental effects of (often forprofit) enterprises such as complementarian gender binaries and the purity movement on both women and men. Raised fundamentalist evangelical, I found myself relating deeply to each scenario, considering my own history and journey, and cheering the series of insights that call out the religious infantilization, oppression, and abuse of females in the United States. If Eve Only Knewis a crucial text for everyone who values and upholds the freedom, equality, and justice of the Gospel of Jesus.” — Jennifer Crumpton, Author ofFemmevangelical

“Whether you are new to egalitarian readings of the Bible that set women free, or whether you are a longtime Christian feminist who is unaware of the hugely popular attempts to keep women in their subordinate roles,If Eve Only Knewwill supply you with hundreds of fresh insights. Like the Gospel’s Canaanite woman who convinced Jesus that he needed to expand his mission, Kendra Irons and Melanie Mock present expansive challenges to contemporary Christianity. Don’t miss the excitement!” — Virginia Mollenkott, William Paterson University; author ofSensuous Spirituality: Out from Fundamentalism

“InIf Eve Only Knew, Melanie Springer Mock and Kendra Weddle Irons give us all a great gift by helping us see our faith tradition with new eyes and, along with it, our place within that story. They provide we who claim Christ a better lens by which to penetrate decades, sometime centuries, of unhealthy, unhelpful teaching on gender and to peer into the true richness of our shared humanity as those made in God’s image.” — John Pavlovitz, Pastor, Blogger, Founder of The Table online community

“Men and women ill at ease with complementarian models of family and church life should welcome this book. By analyzing popular evangelical messages and offering faithful ways to interpret scripture through an egalitarian lens, the authors provide a way forward—a way of faith, freedom, and fulfillment that refuses to silence half the church. Given the strong emotions that often characterize debates on this issue, I especially appreciated the book’s sound scholarship and judicious tone.” — Gary Tandy, Author ofThe Rhetoric of Certitude

“This new book by Irons and Mock tackles the biblical and contemporary aspects of Evangelicalism and other conservative strands of Christianity that denigrate and subordinate women. Not only do they succeed in showing that the Bible often does not say what conservatives claim, but they also show that their notions of modesty and purity originated much more recently than in biblical times. The toxic effects of these allegedly biblical views, which are used to silence and control others, are exposed. The message ofIf Eve Only Knewto be heard far and wide, for the sake of not only needs women but people of all genders who are being misled by harmful teachings masquerading as biblical truth. The information in this book probably won’t bring an end to patriarchy and oppression, but it should at least make more people aware that those who justify their view of male superiority as simply ‘what the Bible says’ are in fact ignoring and distorting the Bible left, right, and center.” — James McGrath, Butler University

To Letha Dawson Scanzoni and the “Sisters of Summer,” inspiring teachers and companions on our journeys as feminists and Christians.

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I f E v E

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frEEIng yOursElf frOm BIBlIcal wOmanhOOd and BEcOmIng all gOd mEans fOr yOu tO BE

KeNDRà weDDLe IRoNS meLàNie spRiNGeR moCk

Copyright ©2015 by Kendra Weddle Irons and Melanie Springer Mock. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse content, please contact Copy right Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978)7508400,www.copyright.com.

Bible quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from theNew Revised Standard Version Bible,copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

Cover illustration: Natalie Turri Cover design: Jesse Turri

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Library of Congress Cataloging–in–Publication Data Irons, Kendra Weddle. If Eve only knew : freeing yourself from biblical womanhood and becoming all God means for you to be / Kendra Weddle Irons, Melanie Springer Mock. — First [edition]. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780827216709 (pbk.) 1. Feminist theology. 2. FeminismReligious aspects—Christianity. 3. Women—Religious aspects—Christianity. 4. Sex role—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title. BT83.55.I76 2015 248.8'43—dc232015015960

Contents

Introduction Becoming Who We’re Meant to Be Chapter One: Saving Eve Chapter Two: Waiting for Boaz and Other Myths of Love Chapter Three: What’s Wrong with Proverbs 31? Chapter Four: When Jesus Was a Man's Man

Chapter Five: The Problem with Purity

Chapter Six: Setting Captives Free Chapter Seven: What Happens in the Silence Chapter Eight: Princesses, Kingdoms, and God, Oh My! Chapter Nine: Biblical Womanhood Redefined Bibliography

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Introduction

Becoming What We’re Meant to Be The airplane was completing its latenight descent into Indianapolis, the hot summer air making the landing a little more textured than I preferred. My seatmate, a woman in her sixties with a swooping hairstyle and a voice laced with Midwest twang, turned to me. “What brings you to Indy?” she asked. For much of the flight, she’d been readingGuidepostmagazine, a monthly publication that offers “true stories of hope, faith, personal growth, and positive thinking.” My own grandma had once stored Guidepostsby her toilet, because—I suppose—everyone can use a dose of positive thinking in the bathroom. Though the magazine promises to be nonsectarian, it is prized by many conservative Christians—its true stories involving loads of prayer, references to Scripture, and miraculous Divine intervention. I wasn’t sure what I should tell thisGuidepostreading grandmother about why I was visiting Indianapolis. My itinerary was free of debauchery; there would be no allnight benders on riverboat casinos or anonymous hookups at Indianapolis’s downtown bars. But I hesitated, carefully mulled my answer, then said: “I’m speaking at a Christian women’s conference.” She nodded and smiled, because we were compatriots. I smiled, too, a little more weakly. If only she knew. An airport hotel in Indianapolis seems an odd place for a Christian feminism conference. The Midwest isn’t always considered a hotbed of progressive thinking. Yet there I was, at a hotel surrounded by a culinary wasteland, with the restaurant trifecta of Bob Evans, Cracker Barrel, and Denny’s providing a nice buffer to the highway noise nearby.