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Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn from Them
List Price: $13.99 Our Price: $11.19
Paperback - 17 August, 1999
WaterBrook Press
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Author: LIZ CURTIS HIGGS
ISBN: 1578561256
Number of Media: 1
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Related Areas: Bible - Stories - General, Bible - Study - General, Bible - Topical Studies, Biography, Christian women, Religion, Religion - Biblical Studies, Religious life, Spirituality - Women's, Women in the Bible, Religion / Christian Life
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| Paperback Description Jezebel and Delilah have plenty to teach contemporary Christian women, according to Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn from Them. In this self-help book, Liz Curtis Higgs tells fictionalized, contemporary stories based on the lives of biblical characters including Eve, Potiphar's Wife, and the Woman at the Well. In verse-by-verse commentary, Higgs summarizes each life's lessons and provides a list of questions for personal consideration or group discussion. The overall message of each chapter is the same: "Good Girls and Bad Girls both need a Savior. The goodness of your present life can't open the doors of heaven for you. The badness of your past life can't keep you out either." In its effort to turn readers' minds heavenward, Bad Girls draws a distinction between fun and joy. Associated with "fleshly pleasures," fun "is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst." Joy, on the other hand, is found in God's "gift of grace." Perhaps the book's greatest weakness is its inability to see that "fun," in many lives, is a holy and necessary means of attaining "joy." --Michael Joseph Gross |
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A Cute Book I found this book to have a very fresh, contemporary perspective on the "bad girls" of the Bible. Higgs has a way of dealing with the material in a way that is actually quite humourous.
Then why did i give the book three stars?? The reason why i gave the book three stars is while Higg's perspective is fresh, her ideas about women are not fresh.
Higgs's theology is one in which women are best being the "nurturers" of relationships and submissive to men. So in that I really do not find iMt to be theologically strong as well as potentially dangerous to women. However unfortunately this is the kind of theology that most popular Christian literature tends to promote. You can find more women empowering books if you are willing to have a more academic, scholarly read.
However I did enjoy the style that Higg's has and would still reccomend Really Bad Girls of the Bible as well as Mad Mary if you are able to get past the conservative view of women or you appriecate the more conservative view of women. I also would highly recommend The Lineage of Grace books by Francine Rivers, Sarah and Rebekah by Orson Scott Card, Red Tent by Anita Diamant and Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George if you enjoy reading fiction inspired by stories of women of the Bible.
A Great Find! This was a really great book to read. It highlighted some of the infamous women of the Bible as well as some that you may have overlooked. It really helps you to better understand the stories and even relate to the women, and their motives. I definitely reccomend this to any woman who wants a better understanding of the Bible and It's characters.
GREAT I thought this book was really great. I love how in depth she goes into each verse. It's really neat to learn how the verse is translated into different versions of the Bible. I hope people don't take the woman who called her "too serious to be a mature christian" to heart. That is a very judgemental phrase. I hope we all can be as happy and giddy as Liz is about her devotion to the Lord. |
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