__It is time for Christian patriarchy to end.__  
  
Historian Beth Allison Barr shows that "biblical womanhood" isn't biblical, but arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments. She presents a better way forward for the contemporary church.  
  
"Throughout this book, Barr talks about how her world was transformed. Readers should be ready to have their worlds transformed too. The Making of Biblical Womanhood is about unmaking the harmful patterns of patriarchy in the church, society, and our own hearts."  
--__Jemar Tisby__, CEO of The Witness Inc.; New York Times bestselling author of The Color of Compromise   
"This fervent, bold, and sweeping history of Christianity and patriarchy is an absolute game changer. Any future debates will need to reckon with Barr's contention that the subjugation of women has nothing to do with gospel truth."  
--__Kristin Kobes Du Mez__, professor, Calvin University; author of Jesus and John Wayne   
"This book has the power to help Christians build a faith where 'there is neither male nor female,' to liberate women from patriarchal hierarchies, and to heal the pain inflicted by countless churches. I have waited my entire adult life for a book like this."  
--__Jonathan Merritt__, contributing writer for The Atlantic; author of Learning to Speak God from Scratch  
  
"It's time--no, it's way past time--that we take a critical look at how complementarians have been leaving women leaders and teachers out of church history books and expose the movement of 'biblical womanhood' for what it is. Read this book and be challenged and encouraged."  
--__Aimee Byrd__, author of Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and No Little Women  
  
"Barr's careful historical examples drawn especially from medieval history hold together a brilliant, thunderous narrative that untells the complementarian narrative. I could not put this book down."  
--__Scot McKnight__, professor, Northern Seminary  
  
"A powerful work of skillful research and personal insight."--Publishers Weekly

__Beth Allison Barr__ (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women's history, and church history. She recently served as president of the Conference on Faith and History (2018-2021) and is an active supporter of Christians for Biblical Equality. Barr is a regular contributor to The Anxious Bench, the popular Patheos website on religious history, and has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, Religion News Service, The Dallas Morning News, Sojourners, and Baptist News Global. Her work has been featured by NPR and The New Yorker. She is also a Baptist pastor's wife and the mom of two great kids.

__USA Today Bestseller Christianity Today 2022 Book Award Finalist (History &amp; Biography) Foreword INDIES 2021 Finalist for Religion__ "A powerful work of skillful research and personal insight."--__Publishers Weekly__   
Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr. It arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments.  
  
This book moves the conversation about biblical womanhood beyond Greek grammar and into the realm of church history--ancient, medieval, and modern--to show that this belief is not divinely ordained but a product of human civilization that continues to creep into the church. Barr's historical insights provide context for contemporary teachings about women's roles in the church and help move the conversation forward.  
  
Interweaving her story as a Baptist pastor's wife, Barr sheds light on the #ChurchToo movement and abuse scandals in Southern Baptist circles and the broader evangelical world, helping readers understand why biblical womanhood is more about human power structures than the message of Christ.

A trusted historian shows that "biblical womanhood" isn't biblical but arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments, and presents a better way forward for the contemporary church.

__Contents__ Introduction  
1. The Beginning of Patriarchy  
2. What If Biblical Womanhood Doesn't Come from Paul?  
3. Our Selective Medieval Memory  
4. The Cost of the Reformation for Evangelical Women  
5. Writing Women Out of the English Bible  
6. Sanctifying Subordination  
7. Making Biblical Womanhood Gospel Truth  
8. Isn't It Time to Set Women Free?

Barr, Beth Allison

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USA Today Bestseller  
  
Christianity Today 2022 Book Award Finalist (History &amp; Biography)  
  
Foreword INDIES 2021 Finalist for Religion  
  
"A powerful work of skillful research and personal insight."--Publishers Weekly  
  
Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr. It arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments.  
  
This book moves the conversation about biblical womanhood beyond Greek grammar and into the realm of church history--ancient, medieval, and modern--to show that this belief is not divinely ordained but a product of human civilization that continues to creep into the church. Barr's historical insights provide context for contemporary teachings about women's roles in the church and help move the conversation forward.  
  
Interweaving her story as a Baptist pastor's wife, Barr sheds light on the #ChurchToo movement and abuse scandals in Southern Baptist circles and the broader evangelical world, helping readers understand why biblical womanhood is more about human power structures than the message of Christ.

\["Want to better understand Biblical understanding of women and their roles?","This enlightening read will highlight where the Church teaching is wrong about what God intended for women","A deep &amp; historical insight which is sure to shake up tradition"\]

Acknowledgments

Introduction

 1. The Beginning of Patriarchy

 2. What If Biblical Womanhood Doesn’t Come from Paul?

 3. Our Selective Medieval Memory

 4. The Cost of the Reformation for Evangelical Women

 5. Writing Women Out of the English Bible

 6. Sanctifying Subordination

 7. Making Biblical Womanhood Gospel Truth

 8. Isn’t It Time to Set Women Free?

Notes

Author Bio

With eye-opening and historically-ground insight, this book shares exactly what the Bible says about women's roles and why the Church has had it wrong for so long

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