FALL 2004 JOURNAL FOR BIBLICAL Table of MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD is a biannual publication of the Contents Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Editorʼs Column ISSN: 1544-5143 2 Bruce A. Ware JOURNAL STAFF Editor Manliness and the Marital Vow Bruce A. Ware 4 Mark Liederbach Managing Editor Profiling Christian Masculinity Rob Lister 10 Stuart Scott Layout and Design Bowin Tichenor Radical Feminism and Abortion Rights: 19 A Brief Summary and Critique Commentators Alan Branch Russell D. Moore Nancy Leigh DeMoss The Influence of the World Todd L. Miles 26 Martha Peace CBMW Chairman of the Board Manhood, Womanhood, and Therapeutic Morality J. Ligon Duncan, III 30 Daniel R. Heimbach Executive Director Gender Roles and the Glory of God: Randy Stinson 35 A Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:2–12 Editorial Correspondence JBMW James M. Hamilton Jr. Attn: Bruce A. Ware [email protected] Celebrating Biblical Womanhoood: 40 Orders and Subscriptions Philosophies of Beauty in Conflict Single issue price $10.00. Subscriptions available Nancy Leigh DeMoss at $15.00 per year. Canadian Subscriptions $20.00 per year. International Subscriptions $25.00 per year. Ten or more copies to the same address, A Response to Marriage Made in Eden: $12.00 per year. 42 A Pre-Modern Perspective for a Post-Christian World Contact CBMW for institutional rates. John Tarwater 2825 Lexington Road · Box 926 Louisville, Kentucky 40280 Annotated Bibliography for Gender Related Articles in 2003 502.897.4065 (voice) 49 Rob Lister 502.897.4061 (fax) offi[email protected] (e-mail) www.cbmw.org (web) UK Address: CBMW 9 Epsom Rd. Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 7AR Annual Subscription £10 The purpose of The Council on Biblical Man- hood and Womanhood is to set forth the teach- ings of the Bible about the complementary differ- ences 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 9/2 (Fall 2004) 2-3 Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Editor’s Column Bruce A. Ware Editor, Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood; Senior Associate Dean, School of Theology Professor of Christian Theology The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky Whether from attending scholarly meetings that deal with the what they are not to be, so they now lack any clear understand- Bible and gender, or from emails sent from pastors and teach- ing or vision of what it means to be a man. Into this void come ers telling of developments in their denominations, churches, two excellent discussions of the “manliness” of being male. and institutions, or from reading the morning paper most days Mark Liederbach focuses attention on the requisite manliness of the week—one thing is crystal clear: issues related to Godʼs of the husband in a healthy and happy marriage relationship, design of human masculinity and human femininity are far and Stuart Scott (author of The Exemplary Husband: A Bibli- from going away! Perhaps all reading this editorial would echo cal Perspective) extends the discussion of masculinity to see agreement to the observation that it seems that gender issues many of its central, biblical features. If one of the great needs are “front burner” issues of our culture, ones where the church of homes, churches, and communities is for men to know what has the opportunity to bear witness to Godʼs wisdom and truth, it is to be men, these articles will give much direction from or issues over which Christians may stumble and falter, bring- Scripture, and much encouragement for men to see afresh what ing harm to themselves and to their communities of men and they are created and called to be. women, to the greater dishonor of Christ and the gospel. If the ministry of CBMW was important seventeen years ago when Alan Branchʼs contribution on the seduction of abortion it commenced, its contribution within the body of Christ today rights helps us see better why commending biblical manhood is urgently needed. To the end that God and his word may be and womanhood is such an enormous challenge. We live in a honored in our lives, our churches, and witnessed to in our world marked by opposition and we best see what the “other communities, we gladly offer the insight and help that this jour- side” thinks. In a similar vein, Martha Peace (author of The nal may bring. Excellent Wife: A Biblical Perspective) helps us see better the many seductions of the world around us all. What stands in op- This issue of the journal offers two fine articles on the position to biblical gender values and commitments is not only broad theme of biblical masculinity. Over the past several the organized efforts of abortion advocates but also the multi- decades, men have been told repeatedly by the culture-shapers tude of worldly influences that ride in the air we breathe. Dan COUNCIL MEMBERS Joshua Harris Dorothy Patterson Edmund Clowney Paul Karleen J. P. Moreland F. LaGard Smith Daniel L. Akin Daniel Heimbach John Piper Nancy Leigh DeMoss Charles & Rhonda Kelley J. Stanley Oakes R. C. Sproul Donald Balasa H. Wayne House James A. Stahr Lane T. Dennis D. James Kennedy Raymond C. Ortlund, Jr. Joseph M. Stowell, III S. M. Baugh Susan Hunt K. Erik Thoennes Thomas R. Edgar Beverly LaHaye J. I. Packer Larry Walker Timothy B. Bayly Elliott Johnson Bruce A. Ware Jerry Falwell Gordon R. Lewis Paige Patterson Stu Weber James Borland Peter Jones John Frame Robert Lewis Dennis & Barbara Rainey William Weinrich Austin Chapman Rebecca Jones BOARD OF REFERENCE Paul Gardner Crawford & Karen Loritts Pat Robertson Luder Whitlock Jack Cottrell Mary Kassian Gary Almy W. Robert Godfrey Erwin Lutzer Adrian & Joyce Rogers Peter Williamson J. Ligon Duncan, III Heather King Hudson T. Armerding Bill H. Haynes John F. MacArthur, Jr. Robert Saucy Steve Farrar George W. Knight, III Wallace Benn David M. Howard Connie Marshner James Sauer Mary Farrar C. J. Mahaney Tal Brooke R. Kent Hughes Richard Mayhue Siegfried Schatzmann Wayne A. Grudem R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Harold O. J. Brown James B. Hurley Marty Minton Thomas Schreiner 2 FALL 2004 Heimbach (author of the newly released True Sexual Morality: Recovering Biblical Standards for a Culture in Crisis) confirms one of the areas that even we in the church are most susceptible to is in the lure of seeing sexuality as a form of therapy. His warnings here are wise, and his appeal is consistently to see and engage in sexual experience only in accord with the good and wise design of our Creator. Jim Hamilton provides a rich and insightful sermon in this issue on 1 Cor 11:2-12, and we gratefully continue our “Celebrating Biblical Womanhood” column with Nancy Leigh DeMossʼs helpful analysis of true beauty. As in the past several issues, we offer again here one sustained book review and then our annotated bibliography on key books on gender matters published in the year 2003. We hope readers will be made better aware of both some of the wonderful gains made and deep concerns before us in resources that come from our publishing houses. As always, we hope and pray that God will be pleased to used this journal for the edification and strengthening of his people, whether by warning them away from dangerous paths or by calling them more zealously to continue on the faithful path, the path of life itself. We have no truth on gender mat- ters—or any other matters—apart from the gracious revelation of God. We trust that readers will detect our ambition to be faithful to that revealed truth. To God alone be the glory. 3 JBMW 9/2 (Fall 2004) 4-9 Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Manliness and the Marital Vow: A Look At The Meaning Of Marriage And Its Implications For Men As They Enter Into The Covenant Of Marriage Mark Liederbach Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Wake Forest, North Carolina I. Introduction II. The Purpose of Marriage: Worship There are two ways to keep a man from drowning in the Genesis 1 and 2 indicate that God designed, created, river of marital divorce or despair: throw him a lifeline or go and instituted marriage prior to the Fall. Because of this, his upstream and keep him from falling in. When it comes to the purpose and agenda for marriage is embedded in the created issue of marriage and divorce, there is an amazing amount of order and is, therefore, still meant to be the driving force be- energy spent on rescue operations for those who are either in hind all marriages today. Recapturing and reasserting this idea, the stream of struggle or who have already divorced and are then, is the first step in revitalizing and redirecting modern asking “where do I go from here.” Relatively speaking there cultureʼs (and the churchʼs) understanding of marriage. The are far fewer efforts to “go upstream and keep them from fall- narrative accounts of Godʼs creation of Adam and Eve are vital ing in.” Thus, the intent of this article is to focus energy on to understanding Godʼs ultimate purpose in creating marriage. preventative action. As David Clark and Robert Rakestraw rightly comment, “the church must teach a positive and proac- Then God said, “Let us make man in Our tive theology of marriage. It must build a captivating vision of image, according to Our likeness; and let them Godʼs will for marriage.” Only by doing so can one “be part of rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of a preventative strategy to help stem the tidal wave of divorce in the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, the church.”1 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” And God created man in His own image, The purpose of this article, then, is to address, with in the image of God He created him; male and specific regard to men (although the application to women is female He created them.