Eve, the Life-Giver: How an Understanding of the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit Informs Womanhood
I wrote this little reflection more than 5 years ago. I think I've grown and changed in my thinking some since then, but some of these thoughts are still timeless. Introduction Attempting a definition of womanhood for the post-modern woman can sometimes be tricky, even offensive. No woman wants the contours of her being to be outlined solely by cultural norms or stereotypes. The Christian woman who desires to apply the gospel to all areas of her life, including and especially her womanhood, must, however, ask herself after whom she is patterning herself. Complementarian thinkers such as Wayne Grudem see analogical parallels between the Trinitarian relationship of Father to Son and of husband to wife. [1] But any such arguments based on the Trinity can be taken too far if seen in isolation or applied one-to-one to our human experience. We are all called to be Christ-like and this, of course, is central to the Christian life of both men and women. Another Trinitarian l