What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women : Wipf & Stock Publishers : 9781532633706 : 153263370X : 19 Oct 2018 : Kevin Giles has been writing on women in the Bible for over 40 years. His latest book, What the Bible Actually Says About Women: A Reply to the Kostenbergers, is, to date, the most comprehensive account of the issues involved in this debate: the women's "revolution" of the late 1960s; the opposing points of view among evangelicals on the disputed texts; related appeals to the Bible in support of slavery and apartheid; the house-church setting for the Sunday gathering in the first century; the consequences in the third world of subordinating and devaluing women; and the abuse of women and girls in all its guises. The ordination of women only gets a passing mention. The constant focus is whether or not the Bible subordinates women to men as the God-given ideal. To understand the evangelical debate over women, a debate that is bitter and sharply divisive, it needs to be underst