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Where Are the Women of Theology?

Dear Reader, As I mentioned in a previous post , at the beginning of the summer I signed up for the London Fellows Programme, a theology and personal discipleship course being run through a local church.  I'm mostly on track to complete the required pre-reading and will have my first response papers due in mid-September.  Topics thus far have included the person of God (A.W.Tozer's The Knowledge of the Holy ) and the role of God's grace in our salvation (John Piper's Legacy of Sovereign Joy ).   But I'm distracted. I have been through the program handbook, and in a year's worth of reading material (approx. 250 pages a month) there is one article written by a woman.  In the extensive Additional Resources list, there is a single book with a female author. In a study from 2007, the charity TearFund reported that  "Compared with all UK adults (Figure 3c), regular churchgoers are more likely to be: Women (65% compared with 52% of...