LaCelle-Peterson, Kristina,  1960- <br/><br/>
Liberating tradition :  women's identity and vocation in Christian perspective / 
Kristina LaCelle-Peterson. 
 - Grand Rapids, Mich. :  Baker Academic,  c2008. 
 - 253 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> "RenewedMinds"--P. facing t.p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801031793 (pbk.) 0801031796 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007045675 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in Christianity.<br/>Women--Religious aspects--Christianity.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV639.W7 L335 2008  / 13798 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>270.082