Liberating tradition : women's identity and vocation in Christian perspective / Kristina LaCelle-Peterson.

"RenewedMinds"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and indexes.

Introduction: Peril and promise : women's experience and the Christian faith -- Women's identity, human identity -- Made in God's image -- Women characters in Scripture -- Supermodels for Jesus? Christian women and body image -- We're in this thing together -- The good, the bad, and the downright strange : marriages in the Bible -- Mistaking the industrial revolution for the Garden of Eden : the myth of the "traditional" marriage -- Two heads are better than one : marriage as partnership -- Women in the church and the world or Why watching TV is not enough -- Seeing the invisible : women in the early church -- Abbesses, mystics, and Reformation women -- Changing the world : women in missions, social reform, and church work in American evangelicalism -- I said what I meant, and I meant what I said -- Not counting women and children : linguistic invisibility in the church -- The discarded images : reasserting biblical language for God -- Conclusions: Up and out.