{"id":840,"date":"2014-03-11T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/03\/jesus-feminist-a-gospel-of-empowerment.html"},"modified":"2014-03-11T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:05:00","slug":"jesus-feminist-a-gospel-of-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/03\/jesus-feminist-a-gospel-of-empowerment.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJesus Feminist:\u201d A Gospel of Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
\u201cJesus Feminist: Exploring God\u2019s Radical Notion that Women are People, Too.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
My initial reaction to that title was \u201cWell yeah\u2026 Like we been sayin.\u201d Because in most mainline protestant circles, we have been HELLA sayin. For like, 100 years. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I was glad to see this book\u2014an apologetic for empowering women leaders in the church\u2014emerge in the evangelical circle, because, you know, \u2018those people\u2019 sure need to read it. But I didn\u2019t really expect to find anything in it that would speak to me or \u2018my people.\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n
Spoiler alert: I was wrong.<\/span><\/div>\n
This book is full of good news. For women and for men; for mainliners, progressives, evangelicals, and all who defy classification; and for all who wonder how much of the church\u2019s identity is shaped by culture more than by Jesus.<\/span><\/div>\n
The self-proclaimed progressives should read this book, if for no other reason than to rejoice in the fact that we have another sister on this mission against patriarchy. \u00a0An especially eloquent and empassioned one at that\u2014and one who will reach a far broader audience than we\u2019ve managed to thus far.<\/span><\/div>\n
Speaking of apologetics\u2014Sarah Bessey\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0are spot on. She visits the biblical \u2018clobber texts\u2019 used to keep women in narrowly focused roles, and she clobbers them right back; with a powerful mix of theology, scholarship, common sense and grace. \u00a0For those of us who long ago gave up defending women\u2019s \u2018place\u2019 in the church, because we thought our particular tradition had moved on, Bessey\u2019s book is like reading the class notes of your smarter, harder working friend\u2026 She explores, in depth, some of the questions we\u2019ve long dismissed as \u2018not our issue anymore.\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n
Read the rest here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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