Eve in Exile - Rebekah Merkle
What is God's purpose for Christian women? Do women have a unique roll to fulfill or is it exactly the same as men's'? In our Christian circles, which seems to be infected by our feminist focused society, this book is quite a refreshing breath of reaffirmed biblical truth (rather than reaffirmed worldly cultural preference). In her book Eve in Exile: And the Restoration of Femininity, Rebekah Merkle writes an excellent exhortation to Christian women of our day. There are four sections in the book, I'll give a description and perhaps some comments on each one. Section one: Two Distractions. The chapters within this section deal with two ways that will NOT fix the problem of ascertaining how Christian women can fulfill their purpose in life. I found it fascinating that one of the 'distractions' Merkle critiques is the way some women try to deal with the problem by looking to the past, a particular period of history, the Austen era, for example, a t...