Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood
Jun 14, 2010 Book Reviews
This past weekend, we launched a new series on the “Nuclear Family” at Riv. I’m going to blog on family themes for the month, as well. Today (since I lightly tapped on the subject during my teaching), I want to recommend an excellent book for you if you want to explore more of what the Bible has to say about Biblical Masculinity and Femininity. This is a bit of a meaty book, but if you are looking to really dive into this topic, this is the book for you. It’s called Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood.
The topics covered in this book are:
- The Key Issues in the Manhood-Womanhood Controversy
- Male and Female Complemantarity and the Image of God
- Marriage Lived for the Glory of God
- Answering Disputed Questions about Gender Specific Roles in the Church
- Standing Against the Culture in the area of Sexuality
Here are a couple snippets:
“The Bible thus almost immediately corrects the errors of male dominance and male superiority that have come as the result of sin and that have been seen in nearly all cultures in the history of the world. Wherever men are thought to be better than women, wherever husbands act as selfish dictators, wherever wives are forbidden to have their own jobs outside the home or to vote or to own property or to be educated, wherever women are treated as inferior, wherever there is abuse or violence against women or rape or female infanticide or polygamy or harems, the biblical truth of equality in the image of God is being denied. To all societies and cultures where these things occur, we must proclaim that the very beginning of God’s Word bears a fundamental and irrefutable witness against these evils.” – Wayne Grudem
“In modern society, we tend to think in this way: If you are a person who has authority over another, that’s a good thing. If you are someone who has to submit to an authority, that’s a bad thing. But that is the world’s viewpoint, and it is not true. Submission to a rightful authority is a good and noble and wonderful thing, because it reflects the interpersonal relationships within God Himself.” – Wayne Grudem
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