Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth: An Analysis of 100 Disputed Questions

Is male headship a product of sin? Does Deborah's authority prove God calls women to leadership? Is female submission a cultural carryover from first-century society? Advocating a "complementarian" vs. an "egalitarian" view, Grudem offers point-by-point biblically based responses to these and other feminist claims challenging the God-ordained roles of men and women. Provocative! 856 pages, softcover from Multnomah.

Egalitarians, or evangelical feminists, consider men's and women's roles in the home and church to be interchangeable. In this helpful book, Bible scholar Wayne Grudem considers over a hundred egalitarian arguments and finds them contrary to the Bible. According to Grudem, the Bible teaches that God values men and women equally. However, their roles in home and church are complementary to each other, not interchangeable. Arguing against both feminism on the left and male chauvinism on the right, his carefully researched handbook is a valuable resource defending the complementarian viewpoint.

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Reviewed by Joseph Hession (Chicopee, MA), November 30, 2004

For those who have read "Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood," this is a fabulous and highly recommended upgrade. For those who are new to the gender issues storming through the church, this is essential material. Grudem's treatment of key passages is careful and precise, but the layout and content of the book makes it a fabulous resource for those who want to wade slowly through the whole tome or use it as a reference to quickly find answers to more than 100 major questions and arguments that are now at the forefront of the manhood-womanhood controversy. Speaking as someone who has read about this issue extensively, I can still say that Grudem's new book had questions and answers I either had no answers to before, or didn't even realize were major points of controversy. In addition to this meaty section of questions and answers, Grudem spends many pages giving a practical, easy to follow explanation of the whole Biblical manhood-womanhood debate as well as a foundational explanation of the complementarian and egalitarian perspective. Further, this is all done on the backbone of scripture with solid exegesis and integrity. One final note: while this will be a pleasing and meaty read for the scholarly, this is extremely accessible to the layman.

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