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

A Guide to Navigate Evangelical FeminismIn a society where gender roles are a hot-button topic, the church is not immune to the controversy. In fact, the church has wrestled with varying degrees of evangelical feminism for decades. As evangelical feminism has crept into the church, time-trusted resources like Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood help remind Christians of what the Bible has to say. In this edition of the award-winning best seller, more than 20 influential men and women such as John Piper, Wayne Grudem, D. A. Carson, and Elisabeth Elliot offer thought-provoking essays responding to the challenge egalitarianism poses to life in the church and in the home. Covering topics like role distinctions in the church, how biblical manhood and womanhood should work out in practice, and women in the history of the church, this helpful resource will help readers learn to orient their beliefs with God?s unchanging word in an ever-changing culture.Review?A faithful guide to understanding and applying the Bible?s teaching on gender in our context today. There is no other book like it.??Mark Dever, Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC?Coming from a home where abuse and neglect were the norm, I was lost on what it meant to be a man, and how to interact with my wife and children. The book that you are holding in your hands was powerfully used by God to shape, chisel, and encourage me to love my wife ?as Christ loved the church? and to disciple my son and daughters into all that God has for them in Christ.??Matt Chandler, Lead Pastor, The Village Church, Dallas, Texas; President, Acts 29 Church Planting Network; author, The Mingling of Souls and The Explicit Gospel ?Whether read cover to cover or used as a reference volume, this book belongs in every church library and the collection of every church leader.??Tim Challies, blogger, Challies.com?Without a doubt this is the most impressive and comprehensive statement of a conservative evangelical understanding of these issues to be published to date. No one seriously involved in seeking a responsible Christian engagement with such concerns can afford to ignore this magisterial undertaking.??Timothy George, Distinguished Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University?Clear, biblical exposition and insightful application, combined with a gracious tone, make this book a rich, timeless resource to help followers of Jesus grapple with the significance and implications of mankind being created ?male and female.? . . . How we need to recover the beauty and goodness of what it means to put the gospel on display by embracing, delighting in, and living out God?s amazing design for our gender.??Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, author; Founder, Revive Our Hearts and True WomanAbout the AuthorJohn Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as the pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don?t Waste Your Life; and Reading the Bible Supernaturally.Wayne Grudem (PhD, University of Cambridge; DD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is Distinguished Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary. He is a member of the Translation Oversight Committee for the English Standard Version of the Bible, the general editor of the ESV Study Bible, and the author of over twenty-five books. Ligon Duncan (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is  chancellor, CEO, and John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He previously served as the senior minister of the historic First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi, for seventeen years. He is a cofounder of Together for the Gospel, a senior fellow of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and was the president of the Alliance of Confe