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Biblical Manhood & Womanhood
Christian Manhood & Womanhood

Dr. Ligon Duncan
Dr. Derek Thomas

This series is also available through a podcast.
 The Big Picture

 Genesis 1:26-27

 01a 6/18/2003
 Male Authority and Female Equality: In the beginning  Genesis 1-3 01b 6/25/2003
 Male Authority and Female Equality: In light of Galatians 3:28  Galatians 3:28 02a 7/16/2003
 Christ's Example  I Corinthians 11:2-16 02b 7/20/2003
 Men are from God and Women, Too!   Derek Thomas   03b  
 Fit to be Tied: Roles, Rules and Responsibilities   03b  
 Made in His Image    Derek Thomas  Genesis 1 04a 7/9/2003
 The Biblical Husband   Derek Thomas  Psalm 128 04b 7/23/2003
 The "S"ubmission Word - What it is, What it isn't  I Peter 3:1-7 05a 7/30/2003
 Silent in the Church: Why Women Can't Preach  I Timothy 2:11-15 05b 8/6/2003
 Women in the Church and Silence in the Church   6  
 How  Should These Biblical Principles Apply in Church and Home?  Ephesians 5:22 07a 8/27/2003
 Modern Stumbling Blocks to Gender Roles   07b  
 19 Objections to Complementarianism  I Timothy 2:8-15 08a 8/20/2003
 The Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy   08b  
 Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in the PCA   09 6/2008

The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood  - CBMW
   50 Crucial Gender Questions  Short pithy answers
    The Gender Neutral Bible Controversy   Vern Poythress
    CBMW Journal Archives - Archives for several previous issues with PDF files
     Motherhood Matters   Mary K. Mohler
    Do Evangelical Feminists Compromise the Bible?  Denny Burke
     Seven Reasons Why We Cannot Call God "Mother"  Randy Stinson
     The Gender of Jesus and the Incarnation   Jack Cottrell
    But What Should Women do in the Church?  Wayne Grudem
    The Nature of Authority in the New Testament  Walter Liefeld
    Summary of the Egalitarian and Complementarian Postitions on the Role of Women  Bruce Ware
 

Biblical Manhood
     A series of sermons by John Piper
    How Should Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Work Out in Practice. George W. Knight III
    Why Male Leadership in the Family Requires Male Leadership  in the Church. cbmw Vern Poythress
    Male Female Equality and the Headship of Christ.  Raymond C Ortlund, Jr.
    Androgny: The Pagan Sexual Ideal.  Peter Jones
    The Special Duties of Husbands to their Wives.  Richard Baxter
    The Role of the Husband.  John F. MacArthur

    <<The following link was found on a site hosted by one of the gentler sexes.   Since they thought him dangerous, Bible believing folks might find him useful.>>

Know Your Enemies
    John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). (135K). "To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of
all equity and justice."  His political situation couldn't have anything to do with this, now, could it?  Nah....
 

Biblical Womanhood
    The Joy of Being a Woman.  Gateway to Joy Interview with Elisabeth Elliot and Nancy DeMoss
    The Essence of Femininity.  A Personal Perspective  Elisabeth Elliot
    The Duty of Wives  John Bunyan(1674). Some good no-nonsense advice from the author of Pilgrim's  Progress,
           taken from his book, Christian Behavior, written in 1674.
    Liberated From Feminism:  The Personal Testimony of Carolyn McCulley   find article......
    Thank You, Mrs. Sanger

Modesty
     Femininity and Modesty   LAF  June 29, 2003
     Modesty Revisited  Wendy Shalit  "we were created in the divine image and deserve modesty"
    A Return to Modesty: Rediscovering the Lost Virtue  Review of Wendy Shalit's book by Tod Kappelman
    Dressed to Lure or be Pure?   Vicki Courtney, virtuousreality.com
    Modest Daughters    Douglas Wilson
    Modesty on Your Wedding Day   Girl Talk, Carolyn Mahaney
    Christian Links for Handmaids   
   

Biblical Resources    These books are available in the FPC Bookstore

 Building Strong Families  Dennis Rainey   
 What’s the Difference?  John Piper
 Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective   James B. Hurley  
 Biblical Womanhood in the Home  Nancy  DeMoss 
 Women & the Word of God  Susan Foh  
 The Excellent Wife   Martha Peace 
 The Exemplary Husband   Stuart Scott
 Strengthening Your Marriage   Wayne Mack  
 Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood  Wayne Gruden
 50 Crucial Questions    Piper & Grudem
 The Legacy of Biblical Womanhood    Susan Hunt & Barbara Thompson
 Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood       Piper/Grudem  
 Does Christianity Squash Women?  Rebecca Jones
   
   

                        
nonBiblical Resources.    Authors, books, and organizations that reflect nontraditional, nonbiblical views of the male-female relationship, either egalatarian or distinctively feminist.  A warning is probably in order.  Not only are some of these folks not biblical in their perspectives, some are blatantly pagan.

God Language and Feminist Christology.  Kenyon College Religion Project
Women-Related Religion/Spirituality Sites  A list of a lot of the bad stuff.
Lilith  The first wife of Adam, the wife of Satan, a witch, a demon, various other identies.


Boomsma, Clarence. Male and Female, One in Christ: New Testament Teaching on Women in Office. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993. Egalitarian.

*Clouse, Bonnidell, and Robert G. Clouse, eds. Women in Ministry: Four Views. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1989. Tends toward egalitarianism.

*Grenz, Stanley, with Denise Muir Kjesbo. Women in the Church: A Biblical Theology of Women in Ministry. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996. By far the best work defending an evangelical egalitarian view of women in ministry.

 

Howe, Margaret E. Women and Church Leadership. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982.

 

Hull, Gretchen Gaebelein. Equal to Serve: Women and Men in the Church and Home. A Crucial Questions Book. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1987.

 

Mickelsen, Alvera, ed. Women, Authority, and the Bible. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1986. Egalitarian views dominate this "multiple-views" book.

 

Spencer, Aida Besancon. Beyond the Curse: Women Called to Ministry. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1985.

 

Tucker, Ruth A., and Walter L. Liefeld. Daughters of the Church: Women and Ministry from New Testament Times to the Present. Grand Rapids: Zondervan - Academie, 1987.

Bilezekian, Gilbert. Beyond Sex Roles: What the Bible Says about a Woman's Place in Church and Family. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1985.


DeJong, Peter, and Donald R. Wilson. Husband and Wife: The Sexes in Scripture and Society. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1979.

Evans, Mary J. Woman in the Bible: An Overview of All the Crucial Passages on Women's Roles. Foreword by Donald Guthrie. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1983.

 

Groothuis, Rebecca. Good News for Women: A Biblical Picture of Gender Equality. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997. Recent work responding to complementarian arguments.

 

Gundry, Patricia. Woman, Be Free! Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1977.

 

Hagen, J. S., ed. Gender Matters: Women's Studies for the Christian Community. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990.

 

Jewett, Paul King. Man as Male and Female. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975. Neoevangelical scholar's early treatment, advocating a form of developing egalitarianism.

 

Kroeger, Catherine Clark, and James R. Beck, eds. Women, Abuse, and the Bible: How Scripture Can Be Used to Hurt or Heal. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1996.

 

Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey. Women, Men, and the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 1977. Neoevangelical, developing egalitarian treatment.

 

Scanzoni, Letha D., and Nancy A. Hardesty. All We're Meant to Be: Biblical Feminism for Today. 3d rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992. The classic neoevangelical feminist defense of developing egalitarianism.

 

Tucker, Ruth. Women in the Maze: Questions and Answers on Biblical Equality. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1992.

Van Leeuwen, Mary Stewart. Gender and Grace. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1990.