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SPRING 2003 JOURNAL FOR BIBLICAL Table of MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD Contents is a biannual publication of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Editor’s Column ISSN: 1544-5143 2 Bruce A. Ware JOURNAL STAFF Executive Director’s Column Editor 4 Randy Stinson Bruce A. Ware Managing Editor Gender and Sanctification: From Creation to Transformation Rob Lister 6 A Comparative Look at Genesis 1-3, the Creation and Fall of the Man and the Woman, and Ephesians 5, the Sanctification of the Assistant Managing Editor Man and the Woman in a Redemptive Marriage Context Todd L. Miles David Lee Talley Layout and Design Jared Hallal 1 Corinthians 11:3: A Corrective to Distortions and 17 Abuses of Male Headship CBMW Steven Tracy Executive Director Randy Stinson Galatians 3:28 — Prooftext or Context? 23 Peter R. Schemm, Jr. Editorial Correspondence JBMW Attn: Bruce A. Ware Could Our Savior Have Been a Woman? [email protected] 31 The Relevance of Jesus’ Gender for His Incarnational Mission Bruce A. Ware Orders and Subscriptions Single issue price $10.00. Subscriptions available at $15.00 per year. Student subscriptions $6.00 Sarah Sumner’s Men and Women in the Church: A Review Article per year. Canadian subscriptions $20.00 per year. 39 Dorothy Patterson International subscriptions $25.00 per year. Ten or more copies to the same address, $12.00 per year. Sermon: Genesis 2:18-25: The Ordinance of Marriage Contact CBMW for institutional rates. 51 J. Ligon Duncan, III 2825 Lexington Road · Box 926 Louisville, Kentucky 40280 502.897.4065 (voice) Cultural Commentary: Steinem I Know, and Smeal I Know, But 502.897.4061 (fax) 56 Who Are You? American Culture Looks at Evangelical Feminism [email protected] (e-mail) Russell D. Moore www.cbmw.org (web) UK Address: Annotated Bibliography for Gender Related Articles in 2002 CBMW 9 Epsom Rd. 57 Rob Lister and Todd L. Miles Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 7AR Annual Subscription £10 The purpose of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood is to set forth the teachings of the Bible about the complementary differences between men and women, created equal in the image of God, because these teachings are essential for obedience to Scripture and for the health of the family and the Church. CBMW is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and the National Association of Evangelicals. 1 JBMW 8/1 (Spring 2003) 2-3 Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood commend the complementarian view must keep front and Editor’s center the responsibility that male headship entails. Whether in marriage or in church leadership, the New Testament commends those men who lead to do so for the benefit and Column blessing of those under their authority. To fail here is to bring disrepute to the cause of Christ and harm to those we are called to love and serve. Bruce A. Ware Editor, Journal for Biblical Manhood If distortions of male headship can be manifest and Womanhood; Senior Associate Dean, through abusive relationships, another kind of distortion takes School of Theology place when passages of Scripture are abused by being made to Professor of Christian Theology say something foreign to their intended meanings. Peter The Southern Baptist Schemm offers a very helpful review of how the supreme text Theological Seminary of the egalitarian movement – Galatians 3:28 – has been Louisville, Kentucky misunderstood and misapplied by those who advance the feminist agenda. He shows convincingly that the context and clear teaching of this passage is about a glorious truth indeed, for women and men alike (!), but it is a teaching very different from the one purported by egalitarian advocates. Again, careful reading, with your Bibles open, will bring insight and personal gain as the real truth of God’s Word is brought home with clarity and forcefulness. The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood comes to you, this issue, displaying its new look. God is prospering our A recent trend to minimize the male gender of Jesus meager but sincere efforts, and we rejoice that the beauty of his (which some find offensive while they claim to follow him as design for manhood and womanhood can be mirrored just a bit Lord!) is an issue many of us never dreamt we would need to better by the beauty of the design for the new cover for our address. But, alas, the need is upon us. I offer here some Journal. But most important, the contents of this Spring issue reflections on whether the “Father” (recall that the One who again present a rich variety, and much from which to learn and sent Jesus is called this) really had to send his “Son” in the grow in Christ. form of a male human being. Consider with me 12 reasons why the male identity of Jesus seems clearly not to have been ad David Talley’s excellent study of how God’s created hoc but part of God’s eternal plan and necessary for its design (Gen 1-2) was marred by sin (Gen 3) and is restored accomplishment. through Christ’s redeeming power as shown in marriage (Eph 5) is full of mature insight and wisdom. As you read this fine Our own Dorothy Patterson offers a wonderful service piece, you will see afresh some of the glory and beauty of to our readers by alerting us to a new book released by manhood and womanhood, as God’s purpose, in part, is to InterVarsity Press claiming to offer a via media between the work through our respective roles to help us grow in complementarian and egalitarian positions. As Dr. Patterson sanctification, to the honor of the redeeming work of Christ. It shows convincingly and clearly, Sarah Sumner’s Men and is clear that Dr. Talley has spent much time studying and Women in the Church in fact consistently fails in this respect, musing over the thesis he commends in this article, and I assure offering instead a steady dose of egalitarian arguments and all who read carefully that you will find much profit here for positions, albeit through her own “story” and innovative your own lives and relationships with others. approaches. I know Dr. Sumner personally, and I could wish that our review here could commend her work to our readers. Steven Tracy warns, helpfully, that headship Unfortunately, unless in another work she demonstrates a becomes perverted and distorted when it is exercised with significant shift back to Scripture’s clear teaching, and harshness and selfishness. Those of us who hold and embraces the glory of the authority and submission COUNCIL MEMBERS Elliott Johnson BOARD OF REFERENCE Thomas R. Edgar Charles & Rhonda Kelley J. Stanley Oakes Bob Slosser Donald Balasa Peter Jones Danny Akin Jerry Falwell D. James Kennedy Stephen F. Olford F. LaGard Smith Timothy B. Bayly Rebecca Jones Gary Almy John Frame Beverly LaHaye Raymond C. Ortlund, Jr. R. C. Sproul James Borland Mary Kassian Gleason Archer Paul Gardner Gordon R. Lewis J. I. Packer Joseph M. Stowell, III Austin Chapman Heather King Hudson T. Armerding W. Robert Godfrey Robert Lewis Paige Patterson Larry Walker Jack Cottrell George W. Knight, III S. M. Baugh Bill H. Haynes Crawford & Karen Loritts Dennis & Barbara Rainey John F. Walvoord J. Ligon Duncan, III C. J. Mahaney Wallace Benn Carl F. H. Henry Erwin Lutzer Pat Robertson Stu Weber Steve Farrar R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Tal Brooke David M. Howard John F. MacArthur, Jr. Adrian & Joyce Rogers William Weinrich Mary Farrar Dorothy Patterson Harold O. J. Brown R. Kent Hughes Connie Marshner Robert Saucy Luder Whitlock Wayne A. Grudem John Piper Edmund Clowney James B. Hurley Richard Mayhue James Sauer Peter Williamson Daniel Heimbach James A. Stahr Nancy Leigh DeMoss S. Lewis Johnson, Jr. Marty Minton Siegfried Schatzmann H. Wayne House Bruce A. Ware Lane T. Dennis Paul Karleen J. P. Moreland Thomas Schreiner 2 SPRING 2003 relationships within which God has designed for men and women to live, this simply will not be possible. Dr. Patterson’s review is direct, but for a book proposing to pull complementarians to the “middle” when in fact they are pulled to the opposite side, we are grateful to the help and insight offered to us here. Recently, CBMW underwent an organizational restructuring which all involved believe will be of great benefit to this ministry endeavoring to be faithful to God and his word, while being strategic and wise in our witness in the world. With a newly elected Board of Directors, CBMW now also has its first Chairman of the Board in the person of Dr. J. Ligon Duncan, III, Senior Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, Mississippi. In light of Dr. Duncan’s election to this important post within CBMW, it is a special delight to present a fine sermon he delivered recently on marriage from Genesis 2. Known for his exegetical care and practical application, readers will find encouragement here in knowing and following God’s word in marriage, as God designed it to be. We welcome, in this issue, a new feature of the Journal, i.e., a “Cultural Commentary” which endeavors to discuss some recent cultural development in light of the transcultural and normative Word of God on issues of sexuality and gender. Russell Moore writes columns and news articles regularly for our CBMW website and for the Baptist Press (both can be read online). You’ll enjoy this recent commentary where, with great wit and skill, Dr. Moore explores whether complementarians are closer to egalitarians or to liberals. You might be surprised with his answer! Once again, I commend the hard work, diligence, and skill of Mr.