Round the Sphere Again: Book Notes

A Review
TurretinFan has been posting an excellent response to Rachel Held Evan’s book A Year of Biblical Womanhood on his blog. He writes,

[A] woman who will remain anonymous (at least, that’s the plan) to my dear readers kindly volunteered to write a response to Rachel Held Evans’ “A Year in Biblical Womanhood.” I edited this response and posted it to this blog in installments. 

Her response is uncompromising, yet witty. An excerpt:

Evans’s pet peeve is the use of the word “biblical” as an adjective preceding “other loaded words, like economics, sexuality, politics, and marriage” [p. xx] (Why she calls these kinds of nouns “loaded” is an unanswered question). She wants to make doubly, triply and quadruply sure that we never, ever presume to use the word “biblical” selectively, since the Bible mentions many things that Evans finds patently “unbiblical.” You can’t have your cake and eat it, too, so you can’t believe that a woman should be silent in the church unless you also believe that woman can be one of multiple wives, as if the latter were a command of God. In fact, overall the book suffers from a common logical problem, that of the naturalistic fallacy: arguing from an “is” to an “ought.” For example, if Solomon had multiple wives and concubines, and God used him, then God approved of those wives and concubines, which is a lot like saying that God approved of Noah’s drunkenness because the Bible never condemns it and Noah is listed in Hebrews 11 as a person of faith.

The link above takes you to a post linking to all seven installments. 

A Reminder
There are still a couple of days for you to sign up for the giveaway of Simonetta Carr’s bitesize biography of Renée of France at Out of the Ordinary.