In this next post in my book analysis series of Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood, I’m going to take a look at chapters 4-6. Hold on tight, we’re going to go fast. Chapter 4: The Cost of the Reformation for Evangelical WomenIn chapter 4, Barr argues that, although she is a Protestant…
It’s Saturday…I have some time for yet another entry into my book analysis series of Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood. Let’s jump right in. TWO: What if Biblical Womanhood Doesn’t Come from Paul?Chapter 2 in Barr’s book covers exactly what the subtitle says. In it, Barr mentions that a lot of people…
As I begin to go through Beth Allison Barr’s book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood, I’m going to the same kind of thing I’ve done with my past book analyses: (1) provide a brief summary of a chapter, and then (2) offer my thoughts on that chapter. So, it will be a “running conversation” of…
A little over a week ago, I finished going through Galatians. At the end of that post, I mentioned I was going to write a reflective post on Galatians to finish off my little dive into Galatians, and then was planning to do a book analysis series on Beth Allison Barr’s book, The Making of…
Earlier this year, I did a book analysis series on The Deconstruction of Christianity by Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett. In their book, they included a brief discussion of Beth Allison Barr’s book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood. It was one of the parts of their book that I chose not to comment on in…
A Brief Recap (Again)Here in Part 5 of my look at Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we now come to the “big finale” of the letter. But again, like I did in my previous post, let’s do a quick recap of what has happened in the letter up to this point. In roughly AD 48-49,…
Today I was interviewed about my book, The Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Reader’s Guide to the New Testament. We mainly focused on the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament. Enjoy.
A Brief Recap Thus FarBefore we move on to the next major section of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, perhaps it would be good to pause and provide a brief recap of both the situation Paul is addressing and his initial argument as he addresses that situation. I believe Paul wrote Galatians to the primarily…
The argument in Galatians actually begins in 2:15. Everything up to this point is basically historical prologue that illustrates the theological point Paul is going to be making from here on out. So, why did he make such a big deal about the fact that he got his Gospel and apostolic calling directly from Jesus?…
The Greeting (1:1-5)If you are like me (or like me when I was in high school), if and when you ever read one of Paul’s letters, you tend to skim through those initial verses in the first chapter where Paul is giving his greetings. Let’s face it, most of his greetings in his letters seem…