Review of Living on the Boundaries: Evangelical Women, Feminism, and the Theological Academy by Nicola Hoggard Creegan and Christine D. Pohl
Oren Martin and Barak Tjader
This book review appears in the Annotated Bibliography for Gender-Related Books in 2005, JBMW Volume 11 No. 2.
Category: Egalitarian - classifies evangelicals who see undifferentiated equality (i.e., they see no scriptural warrant for affirming male headship in the home or the church).
Creegan and Pohl examine the landscape of evangelicalism with regard to women in theological institutions. Their methodology includes a survey of women who have pursued vocations in theological education. By interacting with answers from these women as well as relating personal experience, the book attempts to give a picture of the tension that exists for evangelical feminist women in the academy. In doing so, Creegan and Pohl wish to encourage evangelical-feminist dialogue in the academic world and an acceptance of egalitarian principles in the practices of evangelical institutions.
