Published 3 years ago

The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood

Summary by Ground News

Chip and Joanna Gaines have built a commercial empire called Magnolia, by selling the trappings of a trendy, Christian life style. The Gaines’s brand often seems to valorize aspects of traditional gender roles. This aesthetic, perhaps unintentionally, has resonances with the evangelical notion of complementarianism. The ideology promotes notions of Biblical manhood and womanhood.

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The New Yorker

The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood

How a nascent movement against complementarianism is confronting Christian patriarchy from within.

3 years ago·New York, United States

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The Gospel Coalition

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: A Review - The Gospel Coalition

“Patriarchy may be a part of Christian history, but that doesn’t make it Christian. It just shows us the historical (and very human) roots of biblical womanhood.”1 In two sentences, this is the central argument of Beth Allison Barr’s popular book The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. The idea of “biblical womanhood” is nothing other than Christian patriarchy, and the only reason it continues to flour…

3 years ago

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