Name: Theology of The Womb
ISBN: 9781532662171

Dan Allender

Christy Angelle Bauman

Becky Allender

Knowing God through the Body of a Woman

Theology of The Womb

Stephanie Ridiculous

I don't know how to talk about this book, so here's some random thoughts in a bullet point list:

-I think we have fundamentally different understandings of what the word Theology means, and as such this book was not at all what I was expecting nor was it what I really wanted
-Bauman is a good writer; she has quite a way with words. If this had just been a memoir and a loose reflection on her faith journey through the years I think this would have been much better.
-This book really meanders around & I wish there had been more structure, cohesion, and specific purpose.
-There is this constant correlation being drawn between something that happens in scripture and the cycle of the womb, but so very little is done to establish how these things could even remotely be viewed as connected.
-This book asks some good questions & invites some important ponderings, but if you're actually looking for any kind of answers you won't find them here 
-Along side some really beautiful writing and theories there are also some real whackadoodle ones. I mean that with love. I don't want to yuck anyones yum, and I don't want to discourage anything that will help you connect with your woman-ness and God, but there are just. some real weird assertions in these pages. 
-There is a cool list of verses where God is described as feminine, but it's unclear if these verses describe feminine attributes or if the original language is actually feminine; that's the kind of Theology I wanted from this, and there wasn't much of it. 
-There are some really jarring moments where deep trauma is very suddenly brought up without much warning
-A lot of time is spent on miscarriage & infant loss and I wasn't totally prepared for just *how much* time would be spent there

All in all, this gave me some interesting things to think about, and I think Bauman is a decent writer, but ultimately disappointed by what was presented based on the title and synopsis.

Theology of The Womb Knowing God through the Body of a Woman