Becoming the Pastors Wife How

Beth Allison Barr

ISBN 10: 1587435896 / ISBN 13: 9781587435898

Edité par Brazos Press, 2025

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Synopsis :

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 her 25 years of experience as a pastor’s wife and her scholarship as a historian to trace the role of the pastor’s wife, showing how it both helped and hurt women in conservative Protestant traditions. While they gained an important leadership role, it came at a deep cost: losing independent church leadership opportunities and strengthening a gender hierarchy that prioritized male careers. Barr examines the connection between the decline of female ordination and the rise of the role of pastor’s wife in the evangelical church, tracing its patterns in the larger history of Christian women’s leadership. By expertly blending historical and personal narrative, she equips pastors’ wives to better advocate for themselves while helping the church understand the origins of the role as well as the historical reality of ordained women.

À propos de l'auteur: Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Vardaman Endowed Chair 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Becoming the Pastors Wife How
Éditeur : Brazos Press
Date d'édition : 2025
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Good