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    Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
    Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
    Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
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    Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

    Written by Carolyn Custis James

    Narrated by Ruth Bloomquist

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    Women comprise at least half the world, and usually more than half the church, but so often Christian teaching to women either fails to move beyond a discussion of roles or assumes a particular economic situation or stage of life. This all but shuts women out from contributing to God’s kingdom as they were designed to do. Furthermore, the plight of women in the Majority World demands a Christian response, a holistic embrace of all that God calls women and men to be in his world. The loudest voices speaking into women’s lives in the twenty-first century thus far come from either fundamentalist Islam or radical feminism. And neither can be allowed to carry the day. The Bible contains the highest possible view of women and invests women’s lives with cosmic significance regardless of their age, stage of life, social status, or culture. Carolyn Custis James unpacks three transformative themes the Bible presents to women that raise the bar for women and calls them to join their brothers in advancing God’s gracious kingdom on earth. These new images of what can be in Christ free women to embrace the life God gives them, no matter what happens. Carolyn encourages readers with a positive, kingdom approach to the changes, challenges, and opportunities facing women throughout the world today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateMar 22, 2011
    ISBN9780310555865
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    Carolyn Custis James

    Carolyn Custis James (MA, Estudios Bíblicos) viaja extensivamente como una hablante popular para las conferencias de las mujeres, iglesias, colegios, seminarios, y otras organizaciones cristianas. Su organización del ministerio, Whitby Forum, promueve la discusión bíblica pensativa para ayudar los hombre y las mujeres para combinan las fuerzas en servir dios a juntos. Nació en Oregon, desarrolló su negocio propio de programas de computadora en Oxford, Inglaterra, antes de trasladarse a Orlando, Florida, con su esposo y hija.

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    • 5/5
      Incredibly insightful. Packed with a lot of information that left me eager to see Gods redemptive plan for women and men be seen as a reality.
    • 4/5
      I liked it. Its got some heart breaking stories of women from around the world and their plights. It also serves as a rallying call to women around the world to stand up and be counted. As such it was a great book. I would give it to any woman questioning her calling and what she can and cannot do as a Christian. It isn’t too academic, which means it’s an easy read. It is written by an American and it’s obviously meant for an American audience, which is as a little disappointing for those of us who have a larger worldview.
    • 5/5
      A must read for every Christian! She expertly gets to the heart of the matter of how women and men in the body of Christ ought to relate to one another and the world, while sidestepping petty debates and arguments of who should be in charge. She calls men and women to action as we live out Christ’s kingdom here on earth.
    • 5/5
      Hear their cries and arise!Five StarsIn her three previous books James laid the Biblical foundation for a better understanding of God's vision for women. In Half the Church, she continues in that vein but also shifts her focus so that her mission has now become twofold. First, she aims to widen the reader's scope of understanding from a primarily middle class Western worldview to a much broader international view. To do so she takes the reader through snapshots of the lives of individual girls and women identifying each by name and describing her circumstances in light of the societal context in which she lives. Although she spares the reader of some details too horrific to repeat, there remains enough information to cause the reader to be sickened by the knowledge that events so tragic happen in epidemic proportions in the 21st century. Second, James draws from the Biblical foundations spelled out in her previous body of work to bring to the attention of the reader, whether male or female, God's explicit call on women to join alongside her brothers as ezer-warriors. To illustrate how both men and women benefit when the sexes join together to battle the enemy, James retells events that happened in the lives of great ezer-warriors both in scripture and in more recent history. Once the reader has gained that understanding and has heard the cries of the helpless, the author shifts her focus to call "half the church" to arise and go forth into their destinies. The book is well structured. James's research and writing point readers to the bigger picture of the church's mission. She intentionally does not take sides on troublesome issues debated by Biblical scholars. Rather, she urges readers to dig deeper into God for answers on those passages of scripture. The topic is certainly thought-provoking and worthy of self-reflection. Through her writing, James seeks to awaken the sleeping giantess one reader at a time. NOTE: I requested and received a copy of this title via NetGalley.com but made no commitment to review it.