Longing for More: A Woman''s Path to Transformation in Christ
by Ruth Barton | Religion & Spirituality | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9781844742059 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9781844742059 Global Overview for this book
Registered by laura0141 of Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom on 8/17/2007
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
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The Back of the Book
Longing for More
It used to be that a woman''s choices were fairly simple: she went to school, got married, stayed married to the same man - for better or worse - and raised children. Standards of conduct and morality were widely accepted, and generally we knew what was expected. This is no longer the case.
Today we can have a career - full-time or part-time, at home or away from home - or we can focus our energy and time solely on family and volunteer work. We can get married or stay single, have children - the ''regular way'' or through adoption - or not. But choices do not necessarily make life easier; they often make life more difficult, because they produce guilt, self-doubt and stress.
With compassion and insight Ruth Haley Barton identifies the pressure exerted on Christian women - by church, culture and from within - and the radical call of Christ to each of us to be free. Exploring eleven freedoms available in Jesus, she shows how Christian women can respond to the genuinely liberating call of Christ on their lives.
Longing for More
It used to be that a woman''s choices were fairly simple: she went to school, got married, stayed married to the same man - for better or worse - and raised children. Standards of conduct and morality were widely accepted, and generally we knew what was expected. This is no longer the case.
Today we can have a career - full-time or part-time, at home or away from home - or we can focus our energy and time solely on family and volunteer work. We can get married or stay single, have children - the ''regular way'' or through adoption - or not. But choices do not necessarily make life easier; they often make life more difficult, because they produce guilt, self-doubt and stress.
With compassion and insight Ruth Haley Barton identifies the pressure exerted on Christian women - by church, culture and from within - and the radical call of Christ to each of us to be free. Exploring eleven freedoms available in Jesus, she shows how Christian women can respond to the genuinely liberating call of Christ on their lives.
DNF - Barton is writing from a background of conservatism (regarding gender) that I have never experienced. Personally, I think she's swung too much in the opposite direction although that may be because *I* have no desire to lead within the Church while she obviously does. Because I don't have the desire and have always gone to more liberal Churches, I really can't relate to her writing in this book.
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