Reconsidering Gender

Evangelical Perspectives

Myk Habets, Beulah Wood, Habets, Wood

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9781608995479
  9781498256759
• eBook ISBN:
  9781630876890
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

Questions related to the issue of gender remain insufficiently acknowledged and explored in contemporary theological literature. These issues form the basis of significant unresolved tensions among evangelicals, as evidenced in debates over the nature of the Trinity, Bible translation, church practice, choice of language, mission leadership, decision-making in homes, and parenting, to name but a few examples. The essays in this volume are not meant to provide a monolithic evangelical theology of gender, but rather to provide evangelical perspectives surrounding the topic of gender. To further this aim, each of the main essays is followed by a formal response with an attempt at a concise and lucid perspective on the essay and pointers to further areas for investigation. Some contributors are complementarian while others are egalitarian, although who is what is left to the discerning reader. Regardless of one's position on the issue, all will benefit from the contributors' commitment to the further exploration of gender issues from the perspective of a broadly conceive evangelicalism.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Prologue
• Chapter 1: The Image of the Invisible God: (An)iconic Knowing, God, and Gender
• Chapter 2: The Image of the Invisible God: A Response to Tim Bulkeley
• Chapter 3: Gender Roles in Marriage and Ministry: A Possible Relationship
• Chapter 4: Why We Still Need Feminist Theology: A Response to Craig Blomberg
• Chapter 5: The Gender Issue in New Zealand Evangelical History
• Chapter 6: Is Christianity Good for Women?: A Response to Peter Lineham
• Chapter 7: God and Gender: The Relational Center
• Chapter 8: Relationality—Getting to the Heart of It: A Response to Irene Alexander
• Chapter 9: Is There a God in This Text?: Violence, Absence, and Silence in 2 Samuel 13:1-22
• Chapter 10: In Whose Interests Do We Read?: A Response to Miriam Bier
• Chapter 11: Being Masculine in My Disabled Male Body
• Chapter 12: Heads and Bodies: A Response to Immanuel Koks
• Chapter 13: Divine Masculine and Feminine in Judeo-mystico: A Tree of Life
• Chapter 14: Imaging the Triune God in Otherness and Encounter: A Response to Yael Klangwisan
• Contributors