Half the Church, Carolyn Custis James
Half the Church, Carolyn Custis James
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Half the Church
Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

Author: Carolyn Custis James

Narrator: Ruth Bloomquist

Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 03/22/2011

Synopsis

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.

About Carolyn Custis James

Carolyn Custis James (MA, Biblical Studies) travels extensively as a popular speaker for women's conferences, churches, colleges, seminaries, and other Christian organizations. Her ministry organization, WhitbyForum, promotes thoughtful biblical discussion to help men and women serve God together. Carolyn founded and is president of the Synergy Women’s Network. She is a consulting editor for Zondervan's Exegetical Commentary Series on the New Testament and author of When Life and Beliefs Collide and Lost Women of the Bible. Carolyn and her husband live in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. They have one grown daughter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Autumn

It took me forever to read this book because I would read a few pages, start crying, and have to stop. I kept thinking, why have I been lied to about what it truly means to be a woman? In many ways, my life has been a do's and don'ts list about what I am allowed and not allowed to do as a woman--and......more

Goodreads review by Kristen

So moved by reading Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Carolyn Custis James responded by writing a book that tackles God's global vision for women. With clarity and insight, James sets out a theology of women that works both f......more

Goodreads review by Carmel

After leaving an extremely conservative, patriarchal fundamentalist sect of Christianity, I’ve spent the past few years reading many different books as I can find about gender roles in the church. I would have to say this has been the best one so far. It is theologically sound while being purposely......more

Goodreads review by Tom

James wrote this book as a companion to the amazing book Half the Sky by Kristof and WuDunn. Reading their hard hitting expose of the plight of women around the world shook James’ world and (like most people who read the book) inspired her to get involved. When I first started reading Half the Churc......more

Goodreads review by Rylee Paine

A must-read for women and men alike. James completely bypasses the arguments people usually get caught up on concerning women’s roles and goes straight to God’s vision for women (and by implication, the church, men, the world...aka we’re all connected and we should all be invested in these issues).......more

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