Being Elisabeth Elliot

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Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. And yet, she stayed in the jungle with her young daughter to minister to the very people who had thrown the spears, demonstrating the power of Christ's forgiveness. The courageous, no-nonsense Elisabeth went on to write dozens of books, host a long-running radio show, and speak at conferences all o...

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ISBN:

9781087750996
1087750997

Description:

xii, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Elisabeth Elliot

Notes:

The authorized biography. Elisabeth's later years
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289)

Contents:

Foreword / Joni Eareckson Tada
Part one : Bedrock. Certainty
An irregular stone
Part two : Being. Elisabeth Elliot and the psychedelic '60s
New construction
Playboy, Filene's Basement, and writers block
Immaturity cannot tolerate ambiguity
The heart of the human experience
The runaway tricycle
Forcible shakings
Haunting doubts
A return to Ecuador
The way forward?
The biographer's burden
The unredeemable Elisabeth Elliot
"I am hopelessly vulnerable"
The writing conference
The Six-Day War
Jerusalem the golden
1968
Things as they are
"I simply boggle"
Take me!
Domesticity and complexity
Reprieve
"Is it cancer?"
Selva Oscura
"Oh! If only..."
Thy will be done
Does the road run uphill all the way?
A paper streamer
Men in the house
Boarder crisis
Walking MacDuff
Depression lurks
Keep me from tears
It's too much
The fence
Part three : Believing. Who was she?
Epilogue: The truth is love

Control Number:

3303144

Other Authors:

Tada, Joni Eareckson, writer of foreword

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