Womanly Dominion: More Than a Gentle and Quiet Spirit

by Mark Chanski

Book Overview

Christian woman, take dominion! "Play your position!" is a call we may hear a coach yell at a soccer or football game. The meaning is do what you have been assigned to do, and do it well! Many Christian women have been told over the years that they must quietly stay under their parasols while their men go out and conquer the world. Is this what the Bible really teaches? Author and pastor Mark Chanski insists that the Bible tells us a different story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879737604
• ISBN13: 9781879737600
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Calvary Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Womanly Dominion

This book has encouraged me in my daily pursuits as a mom and wife. I really appreciate its simplicity, detail, and hard biblical references as it teaches on the importance of "playing your position and winning it!"

Excellent book!

Great book- full of Scripture. I'm sure I will reread this in the future and use it as a reference.

what an encouragement!

As a wife and the mother of three young children, it's easy for me to loose sight of the "big picture" in the midst of my seemingly mundane, daily duties. "Womanly Dominion" was the encouragement I needed to press on and, little by little, become the woman I know God wants me to be. I was reminded of how important my job is in the whole scheme of things and admonished to take it seriously. Thank you Mark Chanski! By the way, this book is especially for married women. Although I'm sure singles would benefit from it, it's not specifically directed at them.

Excellent, Biblical Encouragement

Mark Chanski attacks an often neglected topic with amazing insight and with scripture as his highest authority. He gives a very thorough treatise on Christian femininity as the Bible teaches. His counsel to Christian women is both trustworthy and thoroughly biblical. A must read for any woman who desires to honor Jesus and obey the high and holy calling the Creator of the Universe has for her.

A Must Read for Any Christian Woman

Womanly Dominion: More Than a Gentle and Quiet Spirit, by Mark Chanski, is the sequel to his excellent work Manly Dominion. When I first learned that this book was coming out I was somewhat skeptical. How could a man write an entire book for women about women? Also, where is he going to go with that subtitle, "more than a gentle and quiet spirit"? Once I began to read this wonderful book, however, I simply could not put it down! While following the same basic pattern as Manly Dominion, this excellent book is basically a much welcomed and enthusiastic "pep rally" for Christian women everywhere to "play their position" just as a well disciplined soccer goalie remains faithfully at his or her post. And to "win it": to excel in excellence in her God ordained role for His glory and honor. This fallen world and culture exerts constant pressure on our women to abandon their high calling as both wives and mothers to pursue "nobler goals", particularly in full time vocational pursuits. It is the effect of the fall of man into sin that men are by nature spiritually passive and women are by nature discontent with their God ordained role (cf. Genesis 3:16). For godly women who feel the pressure from this fallen world to "abandon their post" (and yes, sometimes that pressure even comes from the local church) Pastor Chanski's book is full of sound Biblical encouragement that will put the wind back in your sails. Yes, we are fallen, but through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus you can learn to be content to live as God created you to live. In no way, shape, or form does Chanski demean women in any way. On the contrary, he truly presents our sisters in the Lord as our co-laborers in the gospel who are our joint heirs in grace, but whom God has nevertheless created with a different role and function than men. Refreshingly, because he truly consults the whole counsel of God concerning heroines of the faith, there is no "Stepford Wife" mentality presented here. Another thing that makes this book such an invaluable resource is that it is "salted and peppered" with extremely practical and often humorous illustrations. I literally had tears in my eyes as I read certain portions of this fine work. In fact, this book is a helpful read for both women and men alike, for in reading about the God-ordained roles of women we men are reminded of our need to "step up to the plate" and not be spiritually passive! I am a Reformed Baptist pastor the same as Pastor Chanski, and both Manly Dominion and Womanly Dominion are now going to become required reading for engaged couples to whom I give pre-marital counseling. My endorsement of this book, however, is not without a few small qualifications. That is why I have given it four stars instead of five. (If possible four and three quarter stars would be more accurate.) I give the following qualifications, not to be nit picky or hyper-critical, but to acknowledge a couple of weaknesses in the bo