Men and women in the church [electronic resource] : building consensus on Christian leadership / Sarah Sumner.
Publication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2003.Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)ISBN:- 9780830876334 (electronic bk.)
- 0830876332 (electronic bk.)
- 262/.14/082 22
- BV652.1 .S86 2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]) and indexes.
My story -- The purpose of this book -- The primacy of Scripture -- Exceptional women -- Is it better to be a man than a woman? -- Women and personhood -- Men and manhood -- Masculinity and femininity -- The authority of biblical metaphors -- Every passage in the Bible means something -- What's a "weaker vessel"? -- No pictures, please -- The husband is the head -- How does God head Christ? -- The mystery of headship -- Does Matthew 18 apply to wives? -- In the name of 1 Timothy 2 -- The order of creation -- It was Adam, and not Adam -- The significance of Adam being created first -- The fault line -- Thomists and Scotists -- Jesus is the logic -- Brothers and sisters in Christ -- Following in the steps of Jesus Christ.
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