Becoming the Pastor's Wife
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Becoming the Pastor's Wife

How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry

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eBook - ePub

Becoming the Pastor's Wife

How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry

About this book

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Foreword INDIES 2025 Book of the Year Finalist (Religion)

"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 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 that existed throughout most of church history 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 (ancient, medieval, Reformation, and modern) 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.

"Barr's work belongs with that sweet spot of scholars whose primary research is exceptional and whose writing is accessible to a mass audience (think Elaine Pagels or N. T. Wright)--she's just that good."--The Presbyterian Outlook

"You will find new heroines to admire in the pages of Becoming the Pastor's Wife."--The Banner

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Information

Publisher
Brazos Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781493447848
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Ministry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Where Is Peter’s Wife?
  9. 2. When Women Were Priests
  10. 3. The Not-So-Hidden History of Medieval Women’s Ordination
  11. 4. The Rise of the Pastor’s Wife
  12. 5. Two for the Price of One
  13. 6. The Best Pastor’s Wife
  14. 7. The (SBC) Road Less Traveled
  15. 8. The Cost of Dorothy’s Hats
  16. 9. Together for the Gospel
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Chronological List of Pastor’s Wife Books
  19. Notes
  20. About the Author
  21. Cover Flaps
  22. Back Cover

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