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If you're going to study the evangelical Christian controversy of the role of women in the home and in the church, then you have to read this book. It is the magnum opus of those who believe that God created men to be (and excluded women from being) the primarily authority in both church and home. This book will give you solid understanding here, even if you disagree (as I do).
Its most significant negative is length. The authors appear to persuade primarily by the sheer size of the book, because once you read it you'll see much of the argumentation repeated among different authors. What I realized after reading this book are the following 5 points. Their argument for pre-fall male headship is weak; their arguments against God's uses of women in the New Testament are weak; they disregard the equality of spiritual gifts in 1 Cor. 12, Eph. 4, and Rom. 12.; they disregard the anti-discrimination of Gal. 3:28; and they disregard the co-authority and co-equality of Gen. 1:26-27.
Still, to solidify one's belief in the equality and freedom of roles for all humans and to be able to argue with someone who doesn't, this book is good reading.
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Very thorough,careful exegesis. It really convicted me and changed my mind on a few points. Regardless of your stand on these issues this is THE place to go to explore them more deeply. That is why it was teh book of the year with CT even though the entire editorial staff (except one) disagreed with its conclusions.
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Writing a review for this book is difficult because it is simultaneously a very good book and a very bad book. But it's not the kind of good and bad that neutralizes each other into a lukewarm puddle, rather it is the kind that coexists constantly asserting its both positive and negative attributes.
Why this book is good: It is good because it is the most thorough representation of a particular and peculiar viewpoint. I know of no better resource if you're curious about this view or why some people hold it. One hundred years from now when a historian wants to research what a certain self-defined group of thinkers believed in the United States in 1991 on the topics of male headship, this will be the book she reaches for. In this sense it's anthropologic gold! This same historian will no doubt be able to see just how culturally dependant this viewpoint is, even more so than we can now. It is conditioned to a significant degree by the more or less patriarchal structure of certain nations throughout Western history. This manifold strand of history was particularly evident in an unhealthy aspect of Ephesian culture in which women were undervalued and mistreated. As a context for the Biblical text this cultural sickness gained in Ephesus, for some, Biblical authority and was accepted as normative in other cultures which mirrored this disease. As this structure became seriously threatened by the Feminist movement in general and the Evangelical Feminist movement in particular it vigorously defended itself with the goal of self-preservation and disarming a movement which was viewed as both a personal threat and an unbiblical position. It is also, no less, influenced by political ideologies closely wedding itself, with some qualifications in places, to the far Right on the political spectrum. Thus, although it is possible to isolate and evaluate these ideas independently, buying into these ideas is to a large degree buying into a whole web of interrelated ideas that find their foundations in political and cultural structures rather than in the Bible.
Why this book is bad: For starters it's not exactly bedtime reading. It has a ton of material and the authors honestly must have had to practice very hard to achieve such perfection in boredom. The Bible is the most exciting book ever written in the world and any book that is boring is a sure sign that it does not embody Biblical truths!!! Second, it fails to meet the Evangelical Feminist arguments head on. For all of its thoroughness on its own position, it finds clever and sometimes not so clever ways to circumvent the strongest points that Evangelical Feminists make. In the worst cases it sets up Evangelical Feminism as a straw woman to be dismissed easily in two or three sentences because of what they see to be the self-evident ridiculousness of it all. Simply making claims that Evangelical Feminism is unbiblical is a long way from actually demonstrating that it is unbiblical. Anyone who has read Evangelical feminist literature, even if they disagree with the arguments presented, must admit that the movement seeks to be faithful to the Biblical text and certainly goes much further in demonstrating its Biblical foundation.
In the end I regret that I am not able to give this book a favorable review on moral grounds because aids in the impoverishment of over half of the human population. Mother Theresa once said that "poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity." Now she is a woman who demands authority! This book robs women of their God given dignity.
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As an evangelical Pastor, I was most impressed with the various authors' faithful representation of the Biblical position. Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood is an excellent resource for any Christian who truly desires to adopt a God honoring attitude toward gender roles. Each contributor affirms the universal truth of male leadership in the home, church and community, while at the same time affirming the value of women. One feminist author has referred to this book as a form of right-wing hate literature. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those men who seek to apply what is written here, cannot help but bless the women who know them. Far from being an insult to womankind, Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood is a long overdue (yet loving) response to feminists in the evangelical Christian community. I could hardly regard it with higher esteem. Please read this collection of hermeneutic genious, paying special attention to the essays of the Godly women who made their brave stand for the singular truth of God's Word.
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This is the definitive book for recovering the precious Godgiven sexual identities that we seem to have lost by listening tosociety as opposed to God. There is also a really good workbook to accompany this work by Pete Schemm. It is newly published. The workbook and the text go hand in hand! READ THIS BOOK!
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