Call Me Blessed: The Emerging Christian Woman

by Faith Martin

Book Overview

A penetrating and well researched book, written in graceful prose and in a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes. --Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802803024
• ISBN13: 9780802803023
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A must read for every Christian woman

Call Me Blessed is written by a woman who took a year-long sabbatical to study what the Bible says about woman. She discovered that for centuries theologians believed that woman were inferior to men. She shows how this bias has influenced our translations. Identical words are translated one way when they refer to men but diminished or exaggerated when they refer to women. This is a must read for every woman who takes following the Bible seriously.

Call Me Blessed -- Light is shed on a lurking place

Faith Martin wrote this book over ten years ago. In it she quotes Jonathan Edwards: We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it;nor that all Satan's lurking places have been found out. And indeed we would do ourselves much good by asking the Lord a simple question "Are men and women equal and what does that mean in relation to the church and marriage?Faith Martin answers this question with clarity, insight and much study. Looking back at the treatment of women from the Old Testament to the present she focuses on what the Scripture actually says as opposed to the traditions of men. In a submissive and forthright manner she divides the truth from tradition. For thinking Christians in the 21st century it is a must-read!