Review of Twelve Extraordinary Women by John MacArthur
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: Complementarian - The author recognizes the full personal equality of the sexes, coupled with an acknowledgment of role distinctions in the home and church.
In this complementary volume to Twelve Ordinary Men (Thomas Nelson, 2002), MacArthur looks at the lives of twelve women in biblical history who played a critical role in the story of redemption. He examines and describes the lives of Eve, Sarah, Rahab, Ruth, Hannah, Mary, Anna, the Samaritan woman, Martha and Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Lydia. MacArthur hopes that his readers will be encouraged by the gracious and faithful work of God that made each of these women extraordinary so that they will be challenged to imitate their examples.
