The Bible's Legacy for Womanhood (1969 Deen), book

The Bible's Legacy for Womanhood (1969) is a book by Edith Deen.

Abstract

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Published in Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.

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.