Desperate for Authenticity

Virginia Ramey Mollenkott has helped shape the effort to bring feminist ideas into evangelical Christian thought. This study traces how her personal growth and her theological growth developed side by side, and uses that path to show the significance of her scholarly work.

As one of the first evangelicals to insist that the poor, the overlooked and the vulnerable deserve sustained care, Mollenkott pressed her community to take those concerns seriously. The book also includes a foreword by Mollenkott herself, in which she responds to several of the ideas presented in the text.