Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Katharine Bushnell (born Sophia Caroline Bushnell in Peru, Indiana) (February 5, 1856 - January 26, 1946) was a medical doctor, Christian writer, medical missionary to China, Bible scholar, and social activist. Of particular interest to her was the status of women in the Bible, believing it had been mistranslated and misinterpreted. She was a forerunner of feminist theology. Her lifelong quest was for biblical affirmation of the integrity and equality of women. Across America and beyond, she served on several continents as she worked to reform conditions of human degradation. She went to China as a medical missionary. She was recognized as a forceful and even charismatic speaker.Her book, God's Word to Women, has become a classic. It emerged from Bushnell's lifetime of working for social reform on behalf of women. As a scholar of Hebrew and Greek, she studied the biblical passages in their original languages and in their historical context. Discovering insights sometimes obscured by Bible translators, she observed correlations between the status of women and misunderstandings of Scripture. After years of diligent study, Bushnell was convinced that the Bible teaches the equality of the sexes—that inequality came with the Fall and humanity turning away from God. She provides strong evidence that the original equality between women and men was restored through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. She discovered that epistles from the apostle Paul, rightly understood and interpreted, was not against women leading and preaching. From Genesis to Revelation, Bushnell provided in her book a thorough exposition of every Bible passage that touches on women. "Scholars have leaned on her groundbreaking work since its first publication in 1921, deeming it one of the best, whole-Bible approaches to the question of women's role in the church and home". With great reverence for the Holy Bible, her closely reasoned exposition of Scripture does much to establish women in their rightful place in church and society.. }
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- Katharine_Bushnell abstract "Katharine Bushnell (born Sophia Caroline Bushnell in Peru, Indiana) (February 5, 1856 - January 26, 1946) was a medical doctor, Christian writer, medical missionary to China, Bible scholar, and social activist. Of particular interest to her was the status of women in the Bible, believing it had been mistranslated and misinterpreted. She was a forerunner of feminist theology. Her lifelong quest was for biblical affirmation of the integrity and equality of women. Across America and beyond, she served on several continents as she worked to reform conditions of human degradation. She went to China as a medical missionary. She was recognized as a forceful and even charismatic speaker.Her book, God's Word to Women, has become a classic. It emerged from Bushnell's lifetime of working for social reform on behalf of women. As a scholar of Hebrew and Greek, she studied the biblical passages in their original languages and in their historical context. Discovering insights sometimes obscured by Bible translators, she observed correlations between the status of women and misunderstandings of Scripture. After years of diligent study, Bushnell was convinced that the Bible teaches the equality of the sexes—that inequality came with the Fall and humanity turning away from God. She provides strong evidence that the original equality between women and men was restored through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. She discovered that epistles from the apostle Paul, rightly understood and interpreted, was not against women leading and preaching. From Genesis to Revelation, Bushnell provided in her book a thorough exposition of every Bible passage that touches on women. "Scholars have leaned on her groundbreaking work since its first publication in 1921, deeming it one of the best, whole-Bible approaches to the question of women's role in the church and home". With great reverence for the Holy Bible, her closely reasoned exposition of Scripture does much to establish women in their rightful place in church and society.".