50 Crucial Questions: An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood
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Overview
The roles of men and women are immensely contested in both society and the church today. Christians are looking for answers from the Bible regarding how God intends for men and women to relate to one another. In this concise and accessible resource, well-known authors and Bible teachers John Piper and Wayne Grudem respond to fifty crucial questions often asked in relation to biblical manhood and womanhood. Answering objections raised against the view that God created men and women equal in value but distinct in role, Piper and Grudem winsomely present a biblical vision of gender roles that is life-giving and fulfilling for both men and women.
To borrow a phrase from C. S. Lewis, there’s a kind of ‘Deep Magic’ about the way God created man and woman—an ancient wonder that few of us postmoderns appreciate. Through a pragmatic arrangement of 50 Crucial Questions, Grudem and Piper bring out passage after passage of Scripture to awaken our minds and hearts to the wonder of what our Creator has done. This concise treatment of the major questions surrounding our roles in the church and home will catapult readers straight into God’s Word to see what is really there.
Gloria Furman, author, Alive in Him and Labor with Hope
The core content of this book was tremendously needed and helpful when it was first published almost a quarter century ago. In our current generation, where there is breathtaking confusion and distortion regarding gender and marriage, it is needed more than ever. There is a desperate need for leaders of the evangelical church to speak with a wise, clear, and uncompromising biblical clarity. Grudem and Piper provide that clear voice, and I pray their answers will be heard and practiced so that God’s glory will be more powerfully displayed through his grand design for men and women.
K. Erik Thoennes, Professor and Chair of Theology, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University; Elder of Congregational Life, Grace Evangelical Free Church, La Mirada, California
From the beginning we have insisted at the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood that the complementarian position is firmly rooted in the authority and sufficiency of Scripture. Here you will find answers to key questions in a concise format from two of the evangelical community’s finest minds. May God use this book to encourage heartfelt obedience to his good and wise design.
Randy Stinson, Senior Vice President for Academic Administration and Provost, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Title: 50 Crucial Questions: An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood
- Authors: John Piper, Wayne Grudem
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Sex role › Religious aspects--Christianity--Miscellanea
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433551840
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2021-09-14T23:24:00Z
Reviews
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Patrick
1/19/2022
While this is a smaller version of Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism Paperback by John Piper & Wayne Grudem (and of only chapter 2), this book packs a lot of good material in 100 pages. You could call this an overview of findings book but this is more than a grifting attempt to resell a book; this is a way to offer valuable insight into normal and legitimate questions still being asked about the topic. Where the book adds the best value is giving you a great starting point into looking deeper into the questions you've seen friends and, sadly, churches bring up on a number of topics. There are some really hard-hitting questions in this book. For example (questions edited for space): 5) What do you mean by "submission"? & 9) Could this lead to abuse? 16) Aren't the arguments against women pastors the same made for defending slavery? 25) Why prohibit women speaking while allowing them to prophecy 31) Is there selective literalism when "braided hair" and "head coverings" are culturally conditional? The answers to the questions are enough to not be ambiguous and you'd see this type of content on a webpage to help people get answers to the question while not going into all the detail. They do not shirk away from some of the best questions against their position of compatibilism. Again, the work is filled out more in the other book but I think this is a great tool that someone that wants help in answering the questions for themselves and researching them and maybe even disagreeing with them or strengthening them would get a great benefit from. Final Grade - A-
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