Unseduced and Unshaken: The Place of Dignity in a Woman's Choices
You can’t afford to live casually, haphazardly.
No matter your age, you were born into a plethora of expectations of what it means to be a woman. How easily we assume impoverished views of womanhood as we hoist beauty and desirability above the more enduring traits of self-possession and dignity. We tend to live as divided and distracted selves, allowing our bodies and minds to drift to opposite poles while swapping our pursuit of God for tamer, lesser loves.
This collection of essays is more than a call to modesty or chastity. It is a thoughtful provocation to speak well, read often, make choices that reflect the character of God, and even to establish a theology of play or leisure. Being intentional with your choices, cultivating your intellect, and taking seriously your voice determines not only what kind of person you are, but also what kind of woman you will be.
“[Unseduced and Unshaken] raises the bar for young Christian women...It’s a call for all Christian women to examine their personal faith presuppositions, deliberately choose a life of Biblical ‘dignity,’ and to not be frightened to allow ‘theology to inform our choices.’”
Just Between Us, Summer 2013 issue
About the Contributors
Introduction
1. Minding Your Dignity: “There is more to you than you know.” Rosalie de Rosset
2. Finding Your Voice: Knowing and Being Known Pam MacRae
3. Longing: From Disparity to Desire Linda Haines
4. “Everything Is Theological” Rosalie de Rosset
5. Distracted or Dignified? : “Solid or Ghostly” Rosalie de Rosset
6. Mindful or Mindless: A Theology of Play Rosalie de Rosset
7. Reading as a Spiritual Exercise Rosalie de Rosset
8. Sexual Dignity: Not by Accident Linda Haines
9. A Theology of Modesty: Naked yet Unashamed Stacie Parlee-Johnson
10. Is It Worth It? Is He Worthy? Rosalie de Rosset
Appendix 1: It Shouldn't Be Easy
Appendix 2: "So Much from So Little"
Notes
Resources
Acknowledgments
This is a call for all Christian women to examine their personal faith presuppositions, and deliberately choose a life of Biblical “dignity.” Our goal should be to be women known for spiritual depth and Biblical substance. Professor de Rosset and her fellow contributors challenge women not to be frightened to allow “theology [to] inform our choices.” As thinkers and readers, we should never stop wrestling with issues of truth that go way beyond gender. The author touches on making God-choices and being true to ourselves with behavior “driven by truth not desire.”
I love it! I endorse this all inclusive call to make time to ponder, pray, and above all think through to action the challenges contained in this excellent book: the people you lead will thank you for it!
—Jill Briscoe, LLD, serves at Elmbrook Church in Wisconsin and globally as minister-at-large with her husband, Stuart. She has authored numerous articles and more than fifty books.
Unseduced and Unshaken raises the bar for young Christian women by calling them to embrace the call to love God with all their minds, as well as their hearts, souls, and strength, and to embrace fully his calling on their lives. The world and the church need women like this, and I applaud these authors for sounding a message that counters the dumbing-down messages women are hearing today.
—Carolyn Custis James, Author, Half the Church and Founder of the Synergy Women’s Network, Inc., a national organization for women emerging or engaged in ministry leadership.
Product Details
- Title : Unseduced and Unshaken: The Place of Dignity in a Woman's Choices
- Author: De Rosset, Rosalie
- Publisher: Moody Publishers
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9780802481740