Gender Roles and the People of God: Rethinking What We Were Taught about Men and Women in the Church
Autor Alice Mathewsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mai 2017
In Gender Roles and the People of God, author, radio host, and professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Alice Mathews surveys the roles women have played in the Bible and throughout church history, demonstrating both the inspiring contributions of women and the many hurdles that have been placed in their path. Along the way, she investigates the difficult passages often used to preclude women from certain areas of service, pointing to better and more faithful understandings of those verses.
Encouraging and hopeful, Mathews aims for an "egalitarian complementarity" in which men and women use all of their gifts in the church together, in partnership, for the glory of God.
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ISBN-13: 9780310529392
ISBN-10: 0310529395
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 138 x 212 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: ZONDERVAN
Colecția Zondervan
Locul publicării:Grand Rapids, United States
ISBN-10: 0310529395
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 138 x 212 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: ZONDERVAN
Colecția Zondervan
Locul publicării:Grand Rapids, United States
Recenzii
A concise, cogent, and convincing treatment of gender roles for God’s people. Alice Mathews has confidently walked onto the historical turf of biblical theology, looked her opposition straight in the eye, and with grace-filled clarity of heart and mind boldly challenged outdated presuppositions, defended a God-honoring position of gender roles, and walked off the playing field victoriously. I delight in this incredible ezer-kenegdo woman of God.
Alice Mathews has made a major contribution to the ongoing dialogue regarding women in the church. Both the tone and content of this book reflect a teacher’s desire to encourage careful thinking rather than to push a particular point of view. She demonstrates a refreshing optimism---believing that rethinking gender roles can lead to renewed effectiveness of men and women working together in building God’s kingdom on earth. What a possibility!
Alice Mathews has spent decades assisting Christians to rethink what they have been taught about gender roles. Very few people have thought as long or as carefully about these issues from a biblical perspective. She provides us with a worthwhile and lively summary of a lifetime of experience and teaching from a woman who has walked the talk.
Alice Mathews has written a thoughtful, reflective, and carefully crafted work. The examination of both historical and contemporary factors in determining the roles of men and women is informative and convincing. This book is an excellent resource for both educational and personal study. An important read for anyone who has the courage and wisdom to reexamine this often controversial issue.
Alice Mathews helps the entire church rethink the concept of gender and gender roles with fresh biblical, historical, theological, and cultural insights. She releases us from our natural binary impulses to reconsider our God-given human responsibilities as people loved and created by God. This is a timely book for those battling in traditional gender wars.
Alice Mathews provides readers with a thorough rethink about gender roles. Her compelling claims help to enhance and enrich the discussion about the practice of men and women in the home and in the ministries of the church.
Alice Mathews’s combination of laser-like clarity and loving charity toward the hierarchicalists she disagrees with is enlightening and refreshing. Spanning Scripture, theology, tradition, ecclesiology, and ministry, with a touch of sociology, this is one of the most succinct and yet comprehensive syntheses of the best scholarship you’ll find on the subject. It is truly a liberating book.
Clear and fair, this is a helpful hard-hitting introduction to questions about gender roles. Alice Mathews draws on her familiarity with the breadth and depth of biblical, theological, and historical scholarship related to these controversial issues to provide an instructive summary, regardless of whether your position is still in process or seemingly settled.
Discussions on gender dominate much of our present culture, and not just in the academy or on the extreme fringes of social media. This book refutes simple gender-based hierarchical approaches that have emerged from some parts of the church and provides a richer and more holistic understanding that is faithful to both Scripture and tradition. This model of informed discourse will serve the church for years to come.
Don’t miss this engaging and well-written book. Read it for its timely and important insights. And read it for its exceptional model of how to study and interpret Scripture. This is a valuable resource for the church, and I will be recommending it often.
Dr. Mathews has written an urgently needed book on gender roles that is thoroughly biblical, both theologically and culturally sensitive, and pastorally prophetic. Above all, her vision of homes and churches led by a “Blessed Alliance” of men and women under the authority of Jesus is deeply hopeful.
Dr. Mathews’s book is an eye-opening journey from creation, through biblical narratives and debated texts, on to a revealing discussion of church history right up to the present. Gender issues raised in this book (much of them alarming) impact every man and woman in the church and threaten future generations of believers. They tarnish our witness, weaken our relationships, and hinder our mission in the world. This is a vitally important read!
Engaging, respectful, honest, and biblical, Dr. Mathews avoids strident tones and, as a friend, helps us reread familiar passages and rethink old ideas. If you believe that only Scripture should limit a person’s ministry, you should read this book.
In this book, Dr. Alice Mathews harvests a lifetime of serious scholarship and practical ministry experience in the church and academy to make a cogent case---biblical, historical, theological, and practical---for the liberation and employment of the spiritual gifts of all God’s gifted and called people, both women and men. I recommend her work with enthusiasm and confidence and would like to see it in the hands of every seminary student in the country.
It is a pleasure to endorse Dr. Alice Mathews’s book. It is a tender, compassionate explanation of the teaching of Scripture on this delicate subject. Her desire is to be fair to what our Lord has taught in his Word, not to win an argument. I urge Christ’s church to center its thinking on this topic with Alice’s firm base on Scripture rather than numerous alternative routes that are often used to discuss this topic.
Over my forty-five- plus years as a Christ follower, I have grieved that so many Christians, especially leaders, refuse to do the hard work of sorting out key issues related to gender roles in the church and home. Gender Roles and the People of God should be included on every Christian’s must-read list.
Overcoming the sin of sexism---what we call in my culture “machismo”---is an ongoing struggle in our churches, homes, and communities. Alice Mathews has gifted the church with a biblically sound, theologically sophisticated, historically relevant, and pastorally sensitive book. This is required reading for all who would advance the gospel of Jesus Christ and his reign.
Readers of this important book by Dr. Mathews will find it helpful and hopeful. Helpful because in this one volume we have a clear interaction with and integration of the hermeneutical, theological, historical, and sociological issues that have impacted the current debates in some of our Christian communities. Hopeful because we see afresh God’s creation of and call to women and men together to be full participants in the life and mission of God for the sake of the world.
Regardless of your position on the gender roles issue, this book will challenge your thinking and provide fresh perspectives on this important issue in the church. Dr. Mathews has inspired countless women to live out their spiritual gifts over the years. For the kingdom’s sake, we should read and examine what she so carefully offers in this important book.
While many books have simply focused on key biblical texts, Gender Roles and the People of God also explores other issues that add to the complexity of the subject, including modern cultural and theological developments that shape the way people read ancient texts and think about God and gender. This book is certain to help many Christians wrestling with gender issues.
Alice Mathews has made a major contribution to the ongoing dialogue regarding women in the church. Both the tone and content of this book reflect a teacher’s desire to encourage careful thinking rather than to push a particular point of view. She demonstrates a refreshing optimism---believing that rethinking gender roles can lead to renewed effectiveness of men and women working together in building God’s kingdom on earth. What a possibility!
Alice Mathews has spent decades assisting Christians to rethink what they have been taught about gender roles. Very few people have thought as long or as carefully about these issues from a biblical perspective. She provides us with a worthwhile and lively summary of a lifetime of experience and teaching from a woman who has walked the talk.
Alice Mathews has written a thoughtful, reflective, and carefully crafted work. The examination of both historical and contemporary factors in determining the roles of men and women is informative and convincing. This book is an excellent resource for both educational and personal study. An important read for anyone who has the courage and wisdom to reexamine this often controversial issue.
Alice Mathews helps the entire church rethink the concept of gender and gender roles with fresh biblical, historical, theological, and cultural insights. She releases us from our natural binary impulses to reconsider our God-given human responsibilities as people loved and created by God. This is a timely book for those battling in traditional gender wars.
Alice Mathews provides readers with a thorough rethink about gender roles. Her compelling claims help to enhance and enrich the discussion about the practice of men and women in the home and in the ministries of the church.
Alice Mathews’s combination of laser-like clarity and loving charity toward the hierarchicalists she disagrees with is enlightening and refreshing. Spanning Scripture, theology, tradition, ecclesiology, and ministry, with a touch of sociology, this is one of the most succinct and yet comprehensive syntheses of the best scholarship you’ll find on the subject. It is truly a liberating book.
Clear and fair, this is a helpful hard-hitting introduction to questions about gender roles. Alice Mathews draws on her familiarity with the breadth and depth of biblical, theological, and historical scholarship related to these controversial issues to provide an instructive summary, regardless of whether your position is still in process or seemingly settled.
Discussions on gender dominate much of our present culture, and not just in the academy or on the extreme fringes of social media. This book refutes simple gender-based hierarchical approaches that have emerged from some parts of the church and provides a richer and more holistic understanding that is faithful to both Scripture and tradition. This model of informed discourse will serve the church for years to come.
Don’t miss this engaging and well-written book. Read it for its timely and important insights. And read it for its exceptional model of how to study and interpret Scripture. This is a valuable resource for the church, and I will be recommending it often.
Dr. Mathews has written an urgently needed book on gender roles that is thoroughly biblical, both theologically and culturally sensitive, and pastorally prophetic. Above all, her vision of homes and churches led by a “Blessed Alliance” of men and women under the authority of Jesus is deeply hopeful.
Dr. Mathews’s book is an eye-opening journey from creation, through biblical narratives and debated texts, on to a revealing discussion of church history right up to the present. Gender issues raised in this book (much of them alarming) impact every man and woman in the church and threaten future generations of believers. They tarnish our witness, weaken our relationships, and hinder our mission in the world. This is a vitally important read!
Engaging, respectful, honest, and biblical, Dr. Mathews avoids strident tones and, as a friend, helps us reread familiar passages and rethink old ideas. If you believe that only Scripture should limit a person’s ministry, you should read this book.
In this book, Dr. Alice Mathews harvests a lifetime of serious scholarship and practical ministry experience in the church and academy to make a cogent case---biblical, historical, theological, and practical---for the liberation and employment of the spiritual gifts of all God’s gifted and called people, both women and men. I recommend her work with enthusiasm and confidence and would like to see it in the hands of every seminary student in the country.
It is a pleasure to endorse Dr. Alice Mathews’s book. It is a tender, compassionate explanation of the teaching of Scripture on this delicate subject. Her desire is to be fair to what our Lord has taught in his Word, not to win an argument. I urge Christ’s church to center its thinking on this topic with Alice’s firm base on Scripture rather than numerous alternative routes that are often used to discuss this topic.
Over my forty-five- plus years as a Christ follower, I have grieved that so many Christians, especially leaders, refuse to do the hard work of sorting out key issues related to gender roles in the church and home. Gender Roles and the People of God should be included on every Christian’s must-read list.
Overcoming the sin of sexism---what we call in my culture “machismo”---is an ongoing struggle in our churches, homes, and communities. Alice Mathews has gifted the church with a biblically sound, theologically sophisticated, historically relevant, and pastorally sensitive book. This is required reading for all who would advance the gospel of Jesus Christ and his reign.
Readers of this important book by Dr. Mathews will find it helpful and hopeful. Helpful because in this one volume we have a clear interaction with and integration of the hermeneutical, theological, historical, and sociological issues that have impacted the current debates in some of our Christian communities. Hopeful because we see afresh God’s creation of and call to women and men together to be full participants in the life and mission of God for the sake of the world.
Regardless of your position on the gender roles issue, this book will challenge your thinking and provide fresh perspectives on this important issue in the church. Dr. Mathews has inspired countless women to live out their spiritual gifts over the years. For the kingdom’s sake, we should read and examine what she so carefully offers in this important book.
While many books have simply focused on key biblical texts, Gender Roles and the People of God also explores other issues that add to the complexity of the subject, including modern cultural and theological developments that shape the way people read ancient texts and think about God and gender. This book is certain to help many Christians wrestling with gender issues.
Descriere
Most women in the church don't aspire to "lord it" over men, nor do they want to scramble for position. Instead, they want to be accepted as full participants in God's work, sharing in kingdom tasks in ways that use their gifts appropriately.
In Gender Roles and the People of God, author, radio host, and professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Alice Mathews surveys the roles women have played in the Bible and throughout church history, demonstrating both the inspiring contributions of women and the many hurdles that have been placed in their path. Along the way, she investigates the difficult passages often used to preclude women from certain areas of service, pointing to better and more faithful understandings of those verses.
Encouraging and hopeful, Mathews aims for an "egalitarian complementarity" in which men and women use all of their gifts in the church together, in partnership, for the glory of God.
In Gender Roles and the People of God, author, radio host, and professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Alice Mathews surveys the roles women have played in the Bible and throughout church history, demonstrating both the inspiring contributions of women and the many hurdles that have been placed in their path. Along the way, she investigates the difficult passages often used to preclude women from certain areas of service, pointing to better and more faithful understandings of those verses.
Encouraging and hopeful, Mathews aims for an "egalitarian complementarity" in which men and women use all of their gifts in the church together, in partnership, for the glory of God.
Cuprins
1. Avoiding a Misreading of the BiblePART ONE: Outstanding Women in the Bible2. Eve3. Leading from the Middle4. Priests and Prophets5. Palestinian Patriarchy Meets Jesus6. Women in the New Testament PART TWO: Five Biblical Questions to Resolve7. Were Women’s Roles Restricted in New Testament Churches?8. What Is “Ministry”?9. What Does the Word “Head” Mean?10. Is Jesus Subordinate to the Father? Does It Matter?11. How Diverse Were New Testament Churches?PART THREE: Outstanding Women in Church History12. “Fathers” of the Church13. Priests, Monks, and Nuns14. Two Reformations with Good and Bad News for Women15. Separate Spheres in the 19th Century16. Where Are We Today?