HOW JESUS HAS LIBERATED WOMEN- DAVID MARSHALL
3:30pm Daphne Public Library An historian of religions, David Marshall taught most recently at Peking University in Beijing, China. Marshall first worked in Asia as a missionary, seeking to awaken the Church to the needs of tribal girls who were being forced into prostitution in Taiwan. Marshall has written extensively on the historicity of the gospels and on Fulfillment Theology, a Christian model of religions based on Paul's sermon in Acts 17, on Sino-American relations, and on World Literature. His work has been endorsed by Christian thinkers such as Miriam Adeney, Paul Brand, Craig Blomberg, Craig Keener, Timothy McGrew, Rodney Stark, Ralph Winter, and Nicholas Wolterstorff." Does Christianity oppress women? Does the Bible denigrate females as handmaids, Jezebels, and harlots? Or is Jesus the ultimate feminist, whose life and teachings have liberated billions of women from deadly ideas and tyrannical social custom? In this first of two volumes, Da...