In this work, Kristina LaCelle-Peterson seeks to affirm the central place of Scripture in Christian life and highlight the liberating nature of the gospel for both men and women. She first considers the biblical ideal for human beings and then offers a biblical foundation for various topics, from identity and body image to language for God. She also examines the cultural nature of gender roles and the ways in which these roles have become entangled with ecclesial expectations.  
  
Liberating Tradition offers a clear, Christian perspective on the issues that women face in the twenty-first century. The book does not provide a Christian gloss on the field of gender studies as it exists, but rather offers a gender-informed, scholarship-based, Christian platform from which to enter into dialogue with the scholars and scholarship that constitute that field.  
  
"Powerfully written, powerfully argued. A real manifesto for those desiring a biblical understanding of the manifold issues associated with our concepts of gender."--__Catherine Kroeger__, founder and former president of Christians for Biblical Equality  
  
"LaCelle-Peterson has written a book that is at once biblical, engaging, comprehensive, forthright, balanced, and caring. It should be especially helpful for those on the 'women's side' of the debate to read something as irenic as this; and hopefully these same features will calm some of the rhetoric on the other side. I am glad to commend it to all."--__Gordon Fee__, professor emeritus, Regent College; coauthor, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth "Compelling, informative, and comprehensive! This book does exactly as the title suggests--liberates. If one wants to read a single book to understand gender issues, this is it! Simultaneously, the reader is inspired to 'lean into all God created us to be.'"--__Jo Anne Lyon__, founder/chief executive officer, World Hope International

__Kristina LaCelle-Peterson__ (PhD, Drew University) is associate professor of religion at Houghton College in Houghton, New York, and is an ordained elder in the Free Methodist Church.

Kristina LaCelle-Peterson seeks both to affirm the central place of Scripture in the Christian life and to highlight the liberating nature of the gospel for both men and women. To do this the author considers the biblical ideal for human beings and then proceeds to offer a biblical foundation for each of the topics under discussion--identity, body image, personal relationships, marriage, church life, and language for God. Along the way she examines the cultural nature of gender roles and the ways in which they have become entangled with ecclesial expectations. This book will help women better appreciate themselves as women, gain a better understanding of their value in God's eyes, and recognize their potential for meaningful engagement in a variety of relationships and vocational callings.

Offers a clear perspective on the issues Christian women face in the twenty-first century and shows how the Bible is a liberating and enriching book for women.

Chapter 1: Peril and Promise: Women's Experience and the Christian Faith  
PART ONE: Women's Identity, Human Identity  
Chapter 2: Made in God's Image  
Chapter 3: Women (Characters) in Scripture  
Chapter 4: Supermodels for Jesus? Christian Women and Body Image  
PART TWO: We're in this Thing Together  
Chapter 5: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Strange: Marriages in the Bible  
Chapter 6: Mistaking the Industrial Revolution for the Garden of Eden: The Myth of the "Traditional" Marriage  
Chapter 7: Two Heads Are Better than One: Marriage as Partnership  
PART THREE: Women in the Church and the World (or Why Watching TV Is Not Enough)  
Chapter 8: Seeing the Invisible: Women in the Early Church   
Chapter 9: Abbesses, Mystics, and Reformation Women   
Chapter 10: Changing the World: Women in Missions, Social Reform, and Church Work in American Evangelicalism  
PART FOUR: I Said What I Meant, and I Meant What I Said  
Chapter 11: Not Counting Women and Children: Linguistic Invisibility in the Church  
Chapter 12: The Discarded Images: Reasserting Biblical Language for God  
Chapter 13: Up and Out: Conclusions

LaCelle-Peterson, Kristina

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Peril and Promise: Women’s Experience and the  Christian Faith

Part One: Women’s Identity, Human Identity 

1. Made in God's Image

2. Women Characters in Scripture

3. Supermodels for Jesus? Christian Women and Body Image

Part Two: We’re in this thing Together 

4. The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Strange: Marriages  in the Bible

5. Mistaking the Industrial Revolution for the Garden of Eden: The Myth of the "Traditional" Marriage

6. Two Heads are Better than one: Marriage as Partnership

Part Three: Women in the Church and the World or why  watching TV is not Enough

7. Seeing the Invisible: Women in the Early Church

8. Abbesses, Mystics, and Reformation Women

9. Changing the World: Women in Missions, Social Reform,  and Church Work in American Evangelicalism

Part Four: I said what I meant, and I meant what I said 

10. Not Counting Women and Children: Linguistic Invisibility in the Church

11. The Discarded Images: Reasserting Biblical Language for God

Conclusions: Up and Out

Notes

Helps women appreciate themselves as women, gain a better understanding of their value in God's eyes, and recognize their potential for meaningful engagement in a variety of relationships and vocational callings.

Kristina LaCelle-Peterson (PhD, Drew University) is associate professor of religion at Houghton College in Houghton, New York, and is an ordained elder in the Free Methodist Church.

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