Anabaptist ReMix: Varieties of Cultural Engagement in North America
Edited by Lauren Friesen and Dennis Koehn
Anabaptist ReMix is a case study of one tradition--Anabaptists and Mennonites--and fragments of its transformation in the modern and post-modern era.
It is a nefarious use of theology, to teach a woman that the salvation of her soul depends upon her living up to an approved image of a good woman. If the desire to live as her true self proves incompatible with that particular image, her choice is either live an approved life as a false self or a life of sin as an authentic self. Under such conditions, a woman becomes alienated from whom she really is. Living this way becomes a harmful pattern perpetrated under conditions shaped by patriarchal theology that is passed to the next generation.