TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deen,Edith
TI  - The Bible's legacy for womanhood
AV  - BS575.D311.B535 1969 
PY  - 1969///
CY  - Garden City, New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Women in the Bible
KW  - Christian women
KW  - Religious life
N1  - Bibliography: pages 321.-326; Section I. Woman's high destiny. In the creation --; In her communication with God --; In her relationship to God --; In the stream of the generations --; In her role as "keeper of the springs" --; Section II. A magna charta for womanhood. Their God-given rights --; Their status in the sanctuary --; Their occupations and creativity --; Their status as national leaders --; The responsible role of little, obscure ones --; Section III. The eternally feminine. Their never changing characteristics --; Their emotional conflicts --; How they looked and what they wore --; Beauty in womanhood --; Romantic love in womanhood --; Sexual sanctity in womanhood --; Section IV. Her denial of her legacy. Those who do not hear the word --; The influence of Pagan Goddesses --; The harlot (prostitute) and the adulterer --; Amos- those who never have enough --; Isaiah- the fashionable and frivolous --; Jeremiah- those who worship false gods --; Ezekiel- the lewd and the worshipers of false cults --; Woman's inescapable man-made disabilities --; Section V. Woman's legacy from Christ and his church. His mother, a true handmaid of [the] Lord --; His example of prayer and worship --; His example of stewardship and witness --; On bringing the visible from the invisible --; His spiritual revelations to women --; His other gifts --; The ministering women about him --; Their harvest from bearing his crosses --; Their service to his church --; Imperishable legacy- the fruits of the Spirit; 2
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