10 Top womens books like The Gospel According to Eve: A History of Women's Interpretation by Amanda W. Benckhuysen

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The Gospel According to Eve: A History of Women's Interpretation

By: Amanda W. Benckhuysen

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be male and female? Do women and men have different intellectual, spiritual, m…

If you liked the womens plot in The Gospel According to Eve: A History of Women's Interpretation by Amanda W. Benckhuysen , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Lead So Others Can Follow: 12 Practices and Principles for Ministry

By: James T. Bradford , None

4.00

Format: None pages,

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2. A Year of Biblical Womanhood

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embar… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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3. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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4. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.27

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

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5. Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women

By: Rachel Held Evans , Sarah Bessey

3.87

Format: 216 pages, ebook

Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fe… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction

6. A History of the World in 6 Glasses

By: Tom Standage

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

7. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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8. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Hardcover

One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard fro… read more

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9. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

 One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

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10. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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11. Just as I Am

By: Cicely Tyson

4.51

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. … read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
"The most potent antidote to reticence is survival."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

"To soar toward what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

"Turning a blind eye to our history has not saved us from its consequences."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

"Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

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12. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer by Tyler Staton

13. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr

4.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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15. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

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  • feminism
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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16. She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up

By: Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This research-based, biblically informed book helps moms reject harmful teachings from the church a… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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17. The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done

By: Kendra Adachi

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Being a Lazy Genius isn't about doing more or doing less. It's about doing what matters to you. "I… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
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18. Wisdom of Your Body

By: Hillary L. McBride

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of … read more

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  • nonfiction
"She cupped her hands around the remnant flame of spirit inside me, protecting the flickering light until it grew stronger, and then placed my own hands around the flame and made me the protector of t…"

-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body

"Transcendence is beautiful, but I'm not convinced it's the full picture. One of my psychology professors used to remind us that if there are only two options and one of them is bad, then we aren't se…"

-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body

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19. Kilt Trip

By: Alexandra Kiley

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Ready or Scot... Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant… read more

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20. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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21. The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities

By: Kate Bowler

4.03

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've … read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • christianity
  • faith
  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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22. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church

By: Amy Kenny

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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23. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

By: Kaitlyn Schiess

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

Cover of Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose by Aimee Byrd

24. Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose

By: Aimee Byrd

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

While evangelicalism dukes it out about who can be church leaders, the rest of the 98% of us need t… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength by Kat Armas

25. Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength

By: Kat Armas

4.30

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Christianity Today 2022 Book Award Finalist (Christian Living & Discipleship) Outreach 2022 Reco… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality by Philip B. Payne

26. The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality

By: Philip B. Payne

4.44

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A biblical defense of egalitarianism that relies on Scripture to affirm gender equality in the chur… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

27. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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  • feminism
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
Cover of Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament by Sandra L. Glahn

28. Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament

By: Sandra L. Glahn

4.49

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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29. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

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"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

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30. The Gospel According to Eve: A History of Women's Interpretation

By: Amanda W. Benckhuysen

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be male and female? Do women and men have different intellectual, spiritual, m… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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31. The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more

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