In the forthcoming book, The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived, Andreas J. To my knowledge, the fullest evangelical answer to the questions, “What does God think about women, and how does he treat them?” is found in Jerram Barrs’ Through His Eyes: God’s Perspective on Women in the Bible. Sayers, “The Human-Not-Quite Human,” in Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible, and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 68. Who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious. Who had no ax to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend Who took their questions and arguments seriously, who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be “feminine” or jeered at them for being female Who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension Who never made arch jokes about them, never treated either as “The women, God help us!” or “The ladies, God bless them!” Who never nagged about them, who never flattered or coaxed or patronized They had never known a man like this Man-there had never been such another.
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