TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brewington,Carla
AU  - Labberton,Mark
TI  - The sacred place of exile: pioneering women and the need for a new women's missionary movement 
SN  - 9781621895824
AV  - BV2610 .B74 2013eb
U1  - 286/.1092 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Eugene
PB  - Wipf & Stock Pub
KW  - Women in missionary work
KW  - Women missionaries
KW  - Biography
KW  - Missions, American
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Femmes dans l'œuvre missionnaire
KW  - Femmes missionnaires
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Missions américaines
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Baptist
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-142) and index; Intro; Title Page; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Scaffolding; Chapter 1: Navigation; Chapter 2: Frames, Lens, and Theory; Part 2: Exile as a Roadmap; Chapter 3: Understandings of Exile; Chapter 4: Outside the Camp; Part 3: Pioneering Women Missionaries; Chapter 5: Historical Undergirding; Chapter 6: Historical Pioneer Missionaries; Chapter 7: Contemporary Pioneer Missionaries; Part 4: Implications for a Women's Mission; Chapter 8: Exile and Community; Chapter 9: A New Women's Missionary Movement; Chapter 10: Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix DAppendix E; Appendix F; Bibliography
N2  - The person of exile may be considered a wanderer, a nomad, a refugee, or a rebel. People of exile can be the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the outcast, the left out, and the pushed away. Different terms are used, but what defines them all is separation. Exile is a dangerous and dominant theme that runs through Scripture, through the lives of the people of Israel, and through the universal church. Women who have known the sacred place of exile are uniquely qualified to form a women's mission. The case is made for a momentum shift in missiological thinking. There is a desperate and aching need for a women's mission, which could lead the way to a women's missionary movement. The emergence of such a mission/movement is indeed fraught with skepticism and suspicion from many of those inside the church and leaders in the missionary world. But the radical, disruptive, costly following of Jesus to those outside the camp is our calling
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