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Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood
For years a debate has raged over how to define true masculinity and true femininity. While there is agreement that men and women share equally in the privilege of being made in God's image, some views of manhood and womanhood blur God-given gender distinctions. Wayne Grudem assembled a team of distinguished writers to show how egalitarian views destroy God's ideal for your relationships, marriage, and life purposes. The contributors to this book These writers explore key issues, including the interchangeability of male-female roles, the meaning of submission, and the historical novelty of egalitarian interpretations of Scripture. This book will demonstrate how some views of manhood and womanhood tamper with our understanding of God's character and why the extremes of male domination and feminism destroy the beauty of our sexual differences-differences that celebrate the excellence of men and women as God created us.
304 pages, Paperback
Published October 4, 2002
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Wayne Grudem
123 books332 followersWayne Grudem (PhD, University of Cambridge; DD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is research professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary, having previously taught for 20 years at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Grudem earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, as well as an MDiv from Westminster Seminary. He is the former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, a cofounder and past president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, a member of the Translation Oversight Committee for the English Standard Version of the Bible, the general editor of the ESV Study Bible, and has published over 20 books, including Systematic Theology, Evangelical Feminism, Politics—According to the Bible, and Business for the Glory of God.
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August 13, 2016Well written. I disagree.
February 10, 2014
Great biblical teaching on the different perspectives on roles.
May 11, 2023
How are people going to live their lives so that their marriages display the truth and worth and beauty and greatness of this glory, when they devote almost no energy or time to knowing and cherishing this glory?
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November 8, 2020
This is an apologetics book to the chriatian feminism. More like the enhancement for the original book in 1991. The conclusion still the same: man and woman created equal but with different role. This book provide more evidences in the exegesis of the word "head" biblically. This book closed with a rather clickbait article, "plastic sexuality" where nowadays people could change the means of sexuality according themselves.
January 20, 2015
In 2009 I devoured this book, reading it over and over and taking many notes. Since then I have been on a journey that is now more inclusive of women in leadership and the plight of gay Christians.
Grudem, Wayne, , and John Piper, ed. Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2002.
Grudem, Wayne, , and John Piper, ed. Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2002.
March 28, 2021
5 Sterne für Inhalt, Argumentation, Exegese und Praxis-Bezug. Abzüge für häufige Wiederholungen und manche Artikel, die eigentlich nicht zum Thema des Buches passen. 200 Seiten wären auch genug gewesen.
Sehr erfreulich: Die Herausgeber und Autoren behandeln das Thema sehr sorgfältig, nachvollziehbar und positiv. Dass ihre Verpflichtung zum biblischen Text nicht allein Lippenbekenntnis ist, zeigt sich ebenso deutlich, wie die Tatsache, dass sie das komplementäre Verständnis von Mann und Frau als Gottes gute und Segen-bringende Ordnung feiern.
I. Overview
1 The Key Issues in the Manhood-Womanhood Controversy, and the Way Forward (Wayne Grudem)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Schon allein wegen diesem Kapitel lohnt sich die Lektüre. Fundiert und stringent werden 6 Schlüsselthemen erörtert, denen ich völlig zustimme:
#1: MEN AND WOMEN ARE EQUAL IN VALUE AND DIGNITY
#2: MEN AND WOMEN HAVE DIFFERENT ROLES IN MARRIAGE AS PART OF THE CREATED ORDER
#3: THE EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN REFLECT THE EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCES IN THE TRINITY
#4: THE EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN ARE VERY GOOD
#5: THIS IS A MATTER OF OBEDIENCE TO THE BIBLE
#6: THIS CONTROVERSY IS MUCH BIGGER THAN WE REALIZE, BECAUSE IT TOUCHES ALL OF LIFE
II. The Glory of Man and Woman as Created by God
2 Male and Female Complementarity and the Image of God (Bruce A. Ware)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Aus dem Fazit: "Male and female, while fully equal as the image of God, are nonetheless distinct in the manner of their possession of the image of God."
3 The Surpassing Goal: Marriage Lived for the Glory of God (John Piper)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"There are two levels at which the glory of God may shine forth from a Christian marriage:
One is at the structural level when both spouses fulfill the roles God intended for them—the man as leader like Christ, the wife as advocate and follower of that leadership. When those roles are lived out, the glory of God’s love and wisdom in Christ is displayed to the world.
But there is another deeper, more foundational level where the glory of God must shine if these roles are to be sustained as God designed. The power and impulse to carry through the self-denial and daily, monthly, yearly dying that will be required in loving an imperfect wife and loving an imperfect husband must come from a p 98 hope-giving, soul-sustaining, superior satisfaction in God. I don’t think that our love for our wives or theirs for us will glorify God until it flows from a heart that delights in God more than marriage. Marriage will be preserved for the glory of God and shaped for the glory of God when the glory of God is more precious to us than marriage."
III. Resolving the Disputed Questions
4 Does Galatians 3:28 Negate Gender-Specific Roles? (Richard Hove)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Etwas repetitiv aber sehr deutlich und nachvollziehbar arbeitet Hove das eigentlich offensichtliche in Galater 3 heraus: Der Text negiert geschlechtsspezifische Rollen in der Gemeinde nicht, sondern unterstreicht vielmehr die Einheit verschiedener Gruppen in Christus. Mit meinen Worten: Was Christen vereint ist größer, als alles, was uns unterscheidet.
5 The Meaning of κεφαλή (“Head”): An Evaluation of New Evidence, Real and Alleged (Wayne Grudem)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Äußerst hilfreiche und sorgfältige Argumentation; sehr gut. Vor allem deshalb wichtig, weil Grudem auch technische Fehler und Unehrlichkeiten (zB beim Zitieren von Quellen durch Auslassungen jener Sätze, welche die eigene Position nicht stützen würden) egalitärer Autoren aufdeckt. Es wird deutlich: Die egalitäre Position steht akademisch und exegetisch auf wackeligen Füßen.
6 The Historical Novelty of Egalitarian Interpretations of Ephesians 5:21–22 (Daniel Doriani)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Doriani schließt: "It is a historical novelty to assert that mutual submission means husbands should submit to their wives just as wives submit to their husbands."
Dabei weist er auch auf hermeneutische Schwierigkeiten der egalitären Auslegung hin, welche Texte nicht miteinander verbindet, sondern gegeneinander ausspielt: "playing text against text is dangerous, and it happens elsewhere too."
7 The Myth of Mutual Submission as an Interpretation of Ephesians 5:21 (Wayne Grudem)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Repetitiv; inhaltlich gut.
8 Tampering with the Trinity: Does the Son Submit to His Father? (Bruce A. Ware)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Ware macht deutlich, dass es bei der Debatte letztlich auch um das Gottesbild geht. Wenn gleicher Wert bei unterschiedlichen Rollen in der Beziehung von Mann und Frau in Ehe und Gemeinde nicht möglich sind, dann ginge wären unterschiedliche Rollen innerhalb der Trinität ebensowenig möglich. Beides hängt zusammen. An diesem Artikel schätze ich auch die praktischen Anwendungen:
1. Embrace rightful authority structures.
2. View both authority and submission as Godlike.
3. Revive the wholesome and biblical concept of God as Father.
4. Our common adoption into God’s family is as sons.
5. Our worship is of the Triune God, equal in essence, yet distinct in role.
IV. Standing Against the Culture
9 Sexual Perversion: The Necessary Fruit of Neo-Pagan Spirituality in the Culture at Large (Peter R. Jones)
10 The Unchangeable Difference: Eternally Fixed Sexual Identity for an Age of Plastic Sexuality (Daniel R. Heimbach)
⭐️Die letzten beiden Kapitel haben eigentlich nichts mit dem Thema "biblische Grundlagen" zu tun...
Appendix: The Danvers Statement
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Dem ist wiederum zuzustimmen.
Ich frage mich: Geht es bei dieser Debatte nicht weniger um die Auslegung scheinbar "schwieriger" Textstellen und nicht einmal um die drunterliegende Hermeneutik, sondern einfach darum, ob jemand (hier denke ich eher an Theologen, Pastoren und Autoren als an Laien) bereit ist, Gott durch sein Wort sprechen zu lassen und mit Vertrauen und Gehorsam zu reagieren, oder eben nicht? Davon scheint abzuhängen, ob man am Ende beim offensichtlichen landet oder die Hermeneutik und Exegese dazwischen entsprechend anpasst um ein anderes Ergebnis zu erzielen. - Viel steht dabei auf dem Spiel; nicht zuletzt unsere eigene Freude, denn es heißt ja bekanntlich: "Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey."
Sehr erfreulich: Die Herausgeber und Autoren behandeln das Thema sehr sorgfältig, nachvollziehbar und positiv. Dass ihre Verpflichtung zum biblischen Text nicht allein Lippenbekenntnis ist, zeigt sich ebenso deutlich, wie die Tatsache, dass sie das komplementäre Verständnis von Mann und Frau als Gottes gute und Segen-bringende Ordnung feiern.
I. Overview
1 The Key Issues in the Manhood-Womanhood Controversy, and the Way Forward (Wayne Grudem)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Schon allein wegen diesem Kapitel lohnt sich die Lektüre. Fundiert und stringent werden 6 Schlüsselthemen erörtert, denen ich völlig zustimme:
#1: MEN AND WOMEN ARE EQUAL IN VALUE AND DIGNITY
#2: MEN AND WOMEN HAVE DIFFERENT ROLES IN MARRIAGE AS PART OF THE CREATED ORDER
#3: THE EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN REFLECT THE EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCES IN THE TRINITY
#4: THE EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN ARE VERY GOOD
#5: THIS IS A MATTER OF OBEDIENCE TO THE BIBLE
#6: THIS CONTROVERSY IS MUCH BIGGER THAN WE REALIZE, BECAUSE IT TOUCHES ALL OF LIFE
II. The Glory of Man and Woman as Created by God
2 Male and Female Complementarity and the Image of God (Bruce A. Ware)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Aus dem Fazit: "Male and female, while fully equal as the image of God, are nonetheless distinct in the manner of their possession of the image of God."
3 The Surpassing Goal: Marriage Lived for the Glory of God (John Piper)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"There are two levels at which the glory of God may shine forth from a Christian marriage:
One is at the structural level when both spouses fulfill the roles God intended for them—the man as leader like Christ, the wife as advocate and follower of that leadership. When those roles are lived out, the glory of God’s love and wisdom in Christ is displayed to the world.
But there is another deeper, more foundational level where the glory of God must shine if these roles are to be sustained as God designed. The power and impulse to carry through the self-denial and daily, monthly, yearly dying that will be required in loving an imperfect wife and loving an imperfect husband must come from a p 98 hope-giving, soul-sustaining, superior satisfaction in God. I don’t think that our love for our wives or theirs for us will glorify God until it flows from a heart that delights in God more than marriage. Marriage will be preserved for the glory of God and shaped for the glory of God when the glory of God is more precious to us than marriage."
III. Resolving the Disputed Questions
4 Does Galatians 3:28 Negate Gender-Specific Roles? (Richard Hove)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Etwas repetitiv aber sehr deutlich und nachvollziehbar arbeitet Hove das eigentlich offensichtliche in Galater 3 heraus: Der Text negiert geschlechtsspezifische Rollen in der Gemeinde nicht, sondern unterstreicht vielmehr die Einheit verschiedener Gruppen in Christus. Mit meinen Worten: Was Christen vereint ist größer, als alles, was uns unterscheidet.
5 The Meaning of κεφαλή (“Head”): An Evaluation of New Evidence, Real and Alleged (Wayne Grudem)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Äußerst hilfreiche und sorgfältige Argumentation; sehr gut. Vor allem deshalb wichtig, weil Grudem auch technische Fehler und Unehrlichkeiten (zB beim Zitieren von Quellen durch Auslassungen jener Sätze, welche die eigene Position nicht stützen würden) egalitärer Autoren aufdeckt. Es wird deutlich: Die egalitäre Position steht akademisch und exegetisch auf wackeligen Füßen.
6 The Historical Novelty of Egalitarian Interpretations of Ephesians 5:21–22 (Daniel Doriani)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Doriani schließt: "It is a historical novelty to assert that mutual submission means husbands should submit to their wives just as wives submit to their husbands."
Dabei weist er auch auf hermeneutische Schwierigkeiten der egalitären Auslegung hin, welche Texte nicht miteinander verbindet, sondern gegeneinander ausspielt: "playing text against text is dangerous, and it happens elsewhere too."
7 The Myth of Mutual Submission as an Interpretation of Ephesians 5:21 (Wayne Grudem)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Repetitiv; inhaltlich gut.
8 Tampering with the Trinity: Does the Son Submit to His Father? (Bruce A. Ware)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Ware macht deutlich, dass es bei der Debatte letztlich auch um das Gottesbild geht. Wenn gleicher Wert bei unterschiedlichen Rollen in der Beziehung von Mann und Frau in Ehe und Gemeinde nicht möglich sind, dann ginge wären unterschiedliche Rollen innerhalb der Trinität ebensowenig möglich. Beides hängt zusammen. An diesem Artikel schätze ich auch die praktischen Anwendungen:
1. Embrace rightful authority structures.
2. View both authority and submission as Godlike.
3. Revive the wholesome and biblical concept of God as Father.
4. Our common adoption into God’s family is as sons.
5. Our worship is of the Triune God, equal in essence, yet distinct in role.
IV. Standing Against the Culture
9 Sexual Perversion: The Necessary Fruit of Neo-Pagan Spirituality in the Culture at Large (Peter R. Jones)
10 The Unchangeable Difference: Eternally Fixed Sexual Identity for an Age of Plastic Sexuality (Daniel R. Heimbach)
⭐️Die letzten beiden Kapitel haben eigentlich nichts mit dem Thema "biblische Grundlagen" zu tun...
Appendix: The Danvers Statement
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Dem ist wiederum zuzustimmen.
Ich frage mich: Geht es bei dieser Debatte nicht weniger um die Auslegung scheinbar "schwieriger" Textstellen und nicht einmal um die drunterliegende Hermeneutik, sondern einfach darum, ob jemand (hier denke ich eher an Theologen, Pastoren und Autoren als an Laien) bereit ist, Gott durch sein Wort sprechen zu lassen und mit Vertrauen und Gehorsam zu reagieren, oder eben nicht? Davon scheint abzuhängen, ob man am Ende beim offensichtlichen landet oder die Hermeneutik und Exegese dazwischen entsprechend anpasst um ein anderes Ergebnis zu erzielen. - Viel steht dabei auf dem Spiel; nicht zuletzt unsere eigene Freude, denn es heißt ja bekanntlich: "Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey."
May 21, 2018
Super dope. Still not sure about where they go with the trinitarian stuff. But even if they're wrong on that, the rest of the book is super dope.
September 10, 2020
Overall, a helpful compilation of essays. I found Daniel Doriani and Peter Jones’s essays to be the standouts.
March 3, 2021
Every pastor ought to have this on their shelf to reference when various male/female issues arise in the parish. The collected thoughts of great minds contributed to this.
July 29, 2021
As a former crossdresser, this book helped me think through what it means to be a man. Here is my full review - https://healingfromcrossdressing.org/...
February 5, 2022
Good exegesis and scholarship. Chapter 9 by Peter Jones was a little out of harmony with the flow and emphasis of the rest of the book.
April 3, 2014
The book is very informative on several views that I share. However, it wasn't what I was looking for in a book for a men's ministry in college. Many of the chapters were too long and kept on reasserting the same thing. Plus, it didn't seem to teach or reinforce cpncepts. I was looking for a book that could highlight certain scriptures of the bible and expound on them, hopefully relating to issues like sexuality and authority. All in all, if you are looking for a book that cites papers and articles on why a certain issue is/is not the ideal thing for a Christian, this book will work for you. Otherwise, I would stick with getting scriptures from the Great Book itself, especially if you are leading a campus ministry, since some people might not have the time to commit to reading the text.
May 19, 2014
mainly discussion between complementarian and egalitarian views on gender roles. much of it is exegetical and scholarly discussion. but, has very important chapters on current cultural debates on gender roles and its spiritual implications...or roots.
July 24, 2012
One of the better books on Complementarianism, though overly bloated and pedantic.
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