Sarah’s Reviews > The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth > Status Update

Christine realized that to change the lives of women, she first had to change ideas about women.

The evangelical fight for inerrancy was inextricably linked with gender from the beginning.

The line between believing the Bible and believing a “plain and literal” interpretation of the Bible blurred (in the fundamentalist-modernist debate that yielded inerrancy)

Gods calling in someone lives never seems justification enough for women to preach; they have to justify their right based on their historical context of patriarchy.

People are products of the world in which they live, and translators are no exception.

Reformation theology might have removed the priest, but it replaced him with the husband.

“The problem in the church is not strong women, but rather weak men who feel threatened by strong women, and have tried various means .. to prohibit them from exercising their gifts and graces in the church” -Ben Witherington

Different translations of Bible say Junia was “well known to the apostles” vs “prominent among the disciples”

“While patriarchy certainly exists in the biblical narrative, Mathews encourages us to remember that there is a difference between ‘what is descriptive and what is prescriptive’l

“patriarchy was not just a result of the curse; it was embedded in the fall itself. Adams rebellion was claiming God’s authority for himself, and Eve’s rebellion was submitting to Adam in place of God.” -Katherine Bushell