Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Redesign): A Response to Evangelical Feminism

There is no mystery about what you're buying here.You either agree with the authors and give it a 4-5 star, or you disagree with the authors and give it a 1.And it is pretty likely your mind is already be made up before you crack open the cover.They do a fantastic job at explaining Scripture, grounding their positions, and organizing the information. Fantastic work to reference or just read and learn. Would HIGHLY recommend to anyone looking for a good reference work on this topic from a biblical evangelical perspective, or to someone who is undecided on the biblical roles of gender and wants a biblical explanation of the complementarian perspective.

So far I'm loving the content, but there are MULTIPLE formatting errors in the Kindle version. I'm only on page 64, and there have been countless sentences run together with no spaces between the last word of one sentence and the first word of the next. There's also a multi-sentence chunk of a paragraph that somehow got cut out of its original context and pasted in the middle of another page's content. I would certainly expect more from a $20 Kindle book!

Regardless of your position on the topic of egalitarianism or complementarianism, this is a great resource. Lays out both arguments in great detail.

Explaining the roles of men & women, the way God intended. Well written using the Word of God. Hollywood & the culture has reduced women to objects to be used & discarded. Men are not acting like men. Don't get Kindle version as there will be pages you can't read & font won't change. The are several errors in the writing that are not in hard copy. I purchased hard copy after not being able to read 5 pages in a row.

First, this book is very much inside baseball for the Christian evangelical sphere (meaning if you don't know Christ Jesus, if you haven't come to the point of wanting to die to the evil inside you and live with His help, pick up a Bible, visit a church, and ask questions, the topic of this can wait a long time). The authors try to present arguments in favor of an hierarchal view of the sexes/genders that is God honoring and Biblical. Biblical is a tough word, as the Bible has prostitutes who get rewarded for faith, and a virgin who is killed to fulfill her dad's vow to God, while promoting reliance on God's forgiveness and morality. My view going in was that, as a man, God gives me certain responsibilities to/for women. My concern was that this book would help authoritative men to feel justified in abuse. The author's share that concern and repeatedly clarify that authority isn't synonymous with tyranny or abuse.Each chapter is a separate essay, often by a different author, most dealing with a distinct Bible passage and addressing a question about the sexes. As such the quality, vigor, goal, and background of each chapter is a little different. Many are academically minded, so their essays are dry but rewarding. Some are much more poetic, so their chapters are less rigorous but instead allow for refocusing the questions, broader Biblical context, and can stand alone better. It isn't about women in the kitchen, men in the field/office/world (which is good, because that's not what the Bible teaches) but about loving service in care (for men) and loving service in support (for women). It isn't about black and white, but tendencies. It isn't about "where's my dinner?" or "cars vs dolls" but a man's willingness, responsibility, and authority to take risks for a woman and a woman's willingness and responsiveness to accept (or reject) those overtures.In the end, I have become convinced that along with manly responsibility comes certain authority, but I am not convinced I like the idea altogether. I pray God works in me, and all Christian men (whether they read this book or not) to mature and humble with the authority we only have from and in line with Jesus.

Came just as described in the time frame given! Looking forward to the good read! Thank you! :)

God is GlorifiedOthers are EdifiedI am BlessedBy the significant & simply application of Gender God’s will Done God’s way!

Very thorough examination of scriptures.

If you want to look into the issue of the roles of men and women in the church - according to biblical principles, this book will be very helpful. I thought it might be too intellectual for me, but have found it very readable.

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This book is almost a manual for the recovering of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood as well as for the rejection of that which is not Biblical in that matter.The book has chapters on exegetical and theological Studies, Studies from related disciplines like Church history, biology, psychology, sociology and law and contributions on how to apply and implicate it all in family and church. Every chapter, each written by another evangelical author, is so full of rich information that it gives the impression as if all possible questions have been answered.The authors orientate themselves from the first to the last page clearly by the Bible and make it very clear what the Bible has to say on the topic. And what they have to say is of immense meaningfulness, provided they are right.They express their concerns, but they also give the solutions to the problems as far as it is possible. Their concern is for:the widespread uncertainty and confusion in our culture regarding the complementary differences between masculinity and feminity;the tragic effects of this confusion in unravelling the fabric of marriage woven by God out of the beautiful and diverse strands of manhood and womanhood;the increasing promotion given to feminist egalitarism with accompanying distortions or neglect of the glad harmony portrayed in Scripture between the loving, humble leadership of husbands and the intelligent, willing support of that leadership by wives;the widespread ambivalence regarding the values of motherhood, vocational home-making, and the many ministries historically performed by women;the growing claims of legitimacy for sexual relationships which have Biblically and historically been considered illicit or perverse;the upsurge of physical and emotional abuse in the family;the emergence of roles for men and women in church leadership that do not conform to Biblical teaching but backfire in the crippling of Biblically faithful witness; the increasing prevalence and acceptance of hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of Biblical texts, and behind all this the apparent accommodation of some within the church to the spirit of the age at the expense of winsome, radical Biblical authenticity.Based on the authors understanding of Biblical teaching, they affirm the following:Both Adam and Eve were created in God`s image, equal before God as persons and distinct in their manhood and womanhood;distinctions in masculine and feminine roles are ordained by God as part of the created order, and should find an echo in every human heart; Adam`s headship in marriage was established by God before the Fall, and was not a result of sin;the Fall introduced distortions into the relationships between men and women - in the home, the husband`s loving, humble headship tends to be replaced by domination or passivity. The wife`s intelligent, willing submission tends to be replaced by usurpation or servility. - in the church, sin inclines men toward a worldly love of power or an abdication of spiritual responsibility, and inclines women to resist limitations on their roles or to neglect the use of their gifts in appropriate ministries;the Old Testament, as well as the New Testament, manifests the equally high value and dignity which God attached to the roles of both men and women. Both Old and New Testaments also affirm the principle of male headship in the family and in the covenant community; redemption in Christ aims at removing the distortions introduced by the curse,- in the family, husbands should forsake harsh or selfish leadership and grow in love and care for their wives, wives should forsake resistance to their husbands` authority and grow in willing, joyful submission to their husbands` leadership, - in the church, redemption in Christ gives men and women an equal share in the blessings of salvation, nevertheless, some governing and teaching roles within the church are restricted to men; in all of life Christ is the supreme authority and guide for men and women, so that no earthly submission- domestic, religious, or civil - ever implies a mandate to follow a human authority into sin;in both men and women a heartfelt sense of call to ministry should never be used to set aside Biblical criteria for particular ministries. Rather, Biblical teaching should remain the authority for testing our subjective discernment of God`s will.The authors are convinced that a denial or neglect of these principles will lead to increasingly destructive consequences in the families, the churches and the culture at large.Because of the great meaningfulness of these texts and its conclusions, every church man, Christian father and mother and theologian should have this book in his book shelf. Its implications are tremendous.The book is not easy to read. You have to use a lot of brainwork, apparently not so much to follow the conclusions of the authors but to follow the laborious and pedestrian theories of others which they also disprove. The whole book is a complete workout of the theme that needs no amendment. A fine and necessary work.

In a time when the roles of men and women are under strict attack by feminism, LGBTQ's and other special interest groups, this book is an essential reading. They cover every biblical text you can think of. They even cover culture, psychology and biology. It is as thorough a defense of the orthodox roles of Men and Women as you can get. If you have read this book and still deny its assertion, you must be willfully rebellious against truth to fit your cultural desires. An excellent work that should be standard reading for every student in seminary or bible college. Loved it!

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