What's at stake

Trillia Newbell hits the nail on the head with regard to Rachel Held Evans's book A Year of Biblical Womanhood. It sounds, from this excellent review, that the book should actually be called The Bible on Trial, with Rachel Held Evans as Judge and Jury.

There will be many more reviews coming along soon, and as Newbell points out, those who applaud it will be the ones who already tend to share her views.

Here's a snippet:

Evans claims to be caught between conservative and liberal theology. She believes in the physical resurrection of Christ, and she believes in evolution. But in seeking to bridge conservative and liberal theology in this book, she invests so much time explaining what she does not believe, that readers will be left wondering exactly what she does believe.

Comments

[Elizabeth@Warrior Wives]

Oh gosh, I'm dreading reading it but I feel like I *should* because she's so popular and I'm writing for women...Amazon just e-mailed me to tell me that it's shipping 2 weeks earlier than they originally said. Hooray.

[Kim]

I don't mind not reading it. Her world view is from the point of view that she does not hold Scripture to be inerrant. That means her authority for whatever she says is not based on the ultimate truth of Christ. To me, that means that I cannot expect her to speak any differently than a woman writing from a completely secular view.

[rosemary]

I wonder why someone with such a low view of scripture would bother with it at all. It seems some folks are propelled by anger and a determination to expose whatever faults they perceive.