Evangelical Feminism & Biblical Truth: An Analysis of More than One Hundred Disputed Questions

by Wayne Grudem

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2012

Overview

What does the Bible really teach about the roles of men and women? Bible scholar Wayne Grudem carefully draws on 27 years of biblical research as he responds to 118 arguments often levied against traditional gender roles. Grudem counters egalitarian and feminist critiques with clarity, compassion, and precision, showing God’s equal value for men and women while celebrating the beauty in their differences.

Contents

Top Highlights

“So Paul means that a woman will be ‘saved’—she will continue to work out the results of her salvation—‘through childbearing,’ that is, through being obedient to God in the various tasks and roles that He calls her to, rather than attempting to teach or govern the church, a role God has not called women to.” (Page 74)

“When men have governing and teaching authority over the church, they reflect something of the character of manhood in the way God intended it to function, and this is right and appropriate and pleasing to God. When women support men in these leadership positions, they reflect something of the excellence of their creation as women in the image of God, and this is right and appropriate and pleasing in God’s sight as well.” (Page 68)

“But with Webb the situation is entirely different. He does not consider the moral commands of the New Testament to represent a perfect or final moral system for Christians. They are rather a pointer that ‘provides the direction toward the divine destination, but its literal, isolated words are not always the destination itself. Sometimes God’s instructions are simply designed to get his flock moving.’” (Page 353)

“Just as the Father and Son are equal in deity and equal in all their attributes, but different in role, so husband and wife are equal in personhood and value, but they are different in the roles God has given them. Just as God the Son is eternally subject to the authority of God the Father, so God has planned that wives be subject to the authority of their husbands.” (Page 46)

Product Details

• Title: Evangelical Feminism & Biblical Truth: An Analysis of More than One Hundred Disputed Questions
• Author: Wayne Grudem
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Feminism › Religious aspects--Christianity; Bible › Feminist criticism; Evangelicalism
• ISBNs: 9781433532610, 9781433532627, 9781433532634, 9781433532641, 9781844740680, 1433532611, 143353262X, 1433532638, 1433532646, 1844740684
• Resource ID: LLS:VNGLCLFMNSMTRTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:38:50Z

About Wayne Grudem

Wayne Grudem is a New Testament scholar turned theologian, author, and research professor of Bible and theology at Phoenix Seminary, Arizona. He earned a BA from Harvard University, an MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. In 2001 Grudem moved to Phoenix Seminary after having taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School for more than twenty years where he was also the chairman of the Department of Biblical and Systematic Theology.