Becoming the Pastor's Wife
How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
$48.44
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2025
Summary
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“A blistering critique of the narrowing options for female leadership in the evangelical church… . A powerful indictment of an unequal system.“–Publishers Weekly
As a pastor’s wife for twenty-five years, Beth Allison Barr has lived with assumptions about what she should do and who she should be.
In Becoming the Pastor’s Wife, Barr draws on that experience and her academic expertise to trace the history of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781587435898 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1587435896 |
| Author: | Beth Allison Barr |
| Publisher: | Baker Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 417g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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About The Author
Beth Allison Barr
Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women’s history, and church history. She is the author of the USA Today bestseller The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. Her work has been featured by NPR and the New Yorker, and she has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Sojourners, and Baptist News Global. Barr lives in Texas with her husband, a Baptist pastor, and their two children.
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