Nurturing the Nations: Reclaiming the Dignity of Women in Building Healthy Cultures
But this is not a book about women; it is a book that deals with the intersection of three seemingly very different subjects: women, poverty, and worldview. The book addresses one of the greatest causes of worldwide poverty, the lie that men are superior to women.\ Nurturing the Nations explains, using information regarding exploitation, murder, and abuse, how the ideas that societies embrace create unhealthy if not improverished cultures. In noting that the worldview of a culture frames how...
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Our world is filled with nations that are impoverished largely because half of their people—the female population—are disenfranchised. But this is not just a book about women; it is a book that deals with the intersection of three seemingly very different subjects: women, poverty and world view. Nurturing the Nations explains how the ideas that societies embrace create healthy or impoverished cultures and supports that theory with information regarding domestic violence, murder and pornography. The book addresses one of the greatest causes of worldwide poverty, the lie that men are superior to women. In noting that the world view of a culture frames how it understands women and men, various paradigms are studied, such as Hinduism and Animism, showing how they lead to the abuse and hatred of women.This topic cannot be addressed without studying the Trinity as a model for male-female relationships. Servanthood, submission and the transcendence of sexuality are all discussed based on the idea that male and female were created equal in being but different in function. The book concludes with a look at the history of women in the Old and New Testament—how they were established as the co-laborers of men in the development of creation and the liberating challenge Jesus issued to the sexist culture of his day.Nurturing the Nations is for Christians who are interested in the issue of poverty; missionaries; relief and development workers; and Christians who are working with poor and abused women.
Pt. 1 The War Against WomenCh. 1 Waking Up to the Pain 7Ch. 2 A World of Abused Women 19Pt. 2 The Lie: The Root of the ProblemCh. 3 The Framework for Examining the Issue 39Ch. 4 The Crushing of Women 49Ch. 5 The Disappearance of Women 69Pt. 3 The Biblical FoundationsCh. 6 Worldview and God's Word 87Ch. 7 The Trinity as a Model 93Ch. 8 The Two "S" Words 105Ch. 9 The Transcendence of Sexuality 123Ch. 10 God's Motherly Love 139Pt. 4 The Transforming StoryCh. 11 The Big Story 161Ch. 12 The Creation and the Fall 171Ch. 13 The Dark Years and the Coming Dawn 189Ch. 14 The Coming of the Bridegroom 205Ch. 15 The Bride of Christ 219Ch. 16 The Wedding of the Lamb 235Ch. 17 God's Design for Women: Nurturers of Nations 241Glossary 263Subject Index 269Biblical Reference Index 273About the Authors 276About Disciple Nations Alliance 277
