Her ever-present logic and her faith do not seem to clash in her credo: "You can't make proper use of a thing unless you know what it was made for, whether it is a safety pin or a sailboat. Elliot analyzes the male-female relationship from several angles, examining discipline and submission in marriage.
While telling the Aucas about Christ, she also established a written form for their writing.Īmong Elliot's evangelical writings, Let Me Be a Woman-Notes on Womanhood for Valerie (1976) stands out as a crisply written, down-to-earth bouquet of advice not only to her daughter, but to all young Christian women. She comprehended and was capable of communicating the divergencies between their concepts and those of the civilized world. Elliot's sharp perception for the slightest nuances in the natives' behavioral patterns opened unknown vistas into the psyche of primitives. She could not even snare a bumblebee for the children to fly on a palm fiber. She did not know how to make fishnets or pots, or how to plant manioc. While Elliot was impressed by the skills of the Aucas in filling the needs of their daily lives, they in turn were puzzled by her lack of them. Here the 20th century met head-on with the stone age, the process observed and interpreted by a sensitive and perceptive woman. It is a verbal and pictorial record of her day-by-day life among the Aucas. The Savage My Kinsman (1961, reprinted in 1981 and a 45th anniversary edition in 1996) is an oversize book, with photographs by Elliot and Cornell Capa. After losing her second husband in the early 1970s, she became visiting professor at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Massachusetts. in 1963, Elliot devoted her life to writing, lecturing, and teaching.
She kept meticulous notes of her observations of the Aucas' lifestyle and recorded their language.
With her baby daughter Valerie and sister of one of the slain men, she entered the Aucas' village in 1958, the first white person to do so. When he and four of his colleagues were killed by the Auca Indians, Elliot decided to follow her call and to carry out her husband's unfinished mission to pacify the Aucas. Her first husband was also a graduate of Wheaton College and a missionary in Ecuador. After attending Prairie Bible Institute, she went as a missionary to Ecuador in 1952. and Katharine Dillingham Howard married James Elliot, 1953 (died) Addison Leitch, 1969 (died) Lars Gren, 1977īorn of American missionary parents in Belgium, Elisabeth Elliot graduated from Wheaton College, Illinois, in 1948.
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