SPRING 2001 Table of THE JOURNAL FOR BIBLICAL Contents MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD Editor’s Column is a biannual publication of the 2 Bruce A. Ware Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Executive Director’s Column 3 Randy Stinson JOURNAL STAFF Editor Tampering With the Trinity: Does the Son Submit to His Father? Bruce A. Ware Bruce A. Ware 4 Managing Editor Trinitarian Perspectives on Gender Roles Rob Lister Peter R. Schemm, Jr. 13 Layout and Design Jared Hallal Reexamining the Eternal Sonship of Christ 21 John MacArthur CBMW President Job: An Ancient Example for Modern Manhood Bruce A. Ware 24 W. Fredrick Rice Vice President Gendered Language and Bible Translation Wayne A. Grudem Valerie Becker Makkai 27 Executive Director Overview of The Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy Randy Stinson 31 Rob Lister Editorial Correspondence JBMW Annotated Bibliography for Gender Related Articles in 2000 Attn: Bruce A. Ware 35 [email protected] Orders and Subscriptions Single issue price $10.00. Subscriptions available at $15.00 per year. Canadian Subscriptions $20.00 per year. Interna- tional Subscriptions $25.00 per year. Ten or more copies to the same address, $12.00 per year. 2825 Lexington Road · Box 926 Louisville, Kentucky 40280 502.897.4065 (voice) 502.897.4061 (fax) [email protected] (e-mail) www.cbmw.org (web) 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 1 JBMW 6/1 (Spring 2001) 2 Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Editor’s co-authored by Vern Poythress and Wayne Grudem. Some other regularly-planned new features call for brief comment. We propose to offer a pastoral Bible study, biblical Column meditation, or sermon in each issue. Those involved in ministry may be helped as we see how another minister thinks about Scripture and applies it to various gender-related issues. Also, beginning with this Bruce A. Ware issue, we plan to offer a significant bibliography of books and President, Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood; articles on the role of men and women. The Spring issue will record Senior Associate Dean, as close as possible to a comprehensive listing of articles published School of Theology in the previous calendar year in this area. So, this issue, published Professor of Christian Theology Spring of 2001, includes a listing of articles on the role of men and The Southern Baptist women published in nearly every relevant scholarly journal during Theological Seminary the calendar year of 2000. The Fall issue each year plans to include Louisville, Kentucky a bibliography of the books published in the previous calendar year. Both bibliographies (articles in the Spring issue; books in the Fall issue) will be annotated – with article annotations quite brief and succinct – so that readers will have some general sense of the articles’ and books’ overall contribution. Finally a word about the frequency of our JBMW’s publication. In light of the structure and design we wish for the Journal, we believe that we cannot publish four top-quality issues each year. Since each issue will be longer and more substantive Readers of The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood than previously published, we also cannot afford four such issues will notice a different look, structure, and design, beginning annually. Consequently, we determined to publish instead two with this issue. As the new JBMW editor, I wish to extend my issues each year, the Spring issue in May and the Fall issue in heart-felt thanks to Rev. Timothy Bayly for his previous November. The length of each issue of the journal will be close to capable editorial work. As with so much in life, evaluation twice as long as previously, so readers will actually receive about occurs and changes are made. In our case, perceptions of the the same pages as they did formerly, just in two installments, not needs and desires of our readership have led to decisions for a four. Our plan is to keep the same annual subscription fee for the new approach, reflected in the 6.1 issue you now hold. two issues each year that you may request receiving. And, in order to be completely fair with our current subscribers, we will honor Because our Journal is issue-focused, we want to bring to our the number of issues you have paid for, so that until your readers some of the finest scholarship and resources available subscription runs out, you will receive two years of issues (four anywhere on the broad area of the biblical roles of men and women. issues) for the price you paid for one year (the previous four As a result, we have chosen to focus more of the Journal’s attention issues). When you renew, of course we will then offer to you the to articles central to a biblical understanding of gender issues and Journal’s annual two issues for the annual subscription fee. roles. It is our hope to offer three or four substantive articles in each issue, some of which are reprints from sources to which our readers I wish to express special thanks to this issue’s managing may not have easy access, and some first-run articles. In either case, editor, Mr. Rob Lister. He has worked very hard in this we hope to present high quality scholarship so that the church can transition to our new format, and he has contributed be helped in her calling to faithfulness, under the headship of Christ. significantly to the substance of this issue. We hope and pray This issue offers three articles dealing with the relevance of the that the Lord will be pleased to bless these efforts to commend doctrine of the Trinity to gender identity. And, we also commend to the biblical and wise plans of God for manhood and you the significance of the gender-neutral Bible controversy, as womanhood. May JBMW advance God’s purposes and speak highlighted by the recent publication of the book, by that title, faithfully regarding this crucial dimension of life. COUNCIL MEMBERS H. Wayne House James A. Stahr Edmund Clowney James B. Hurley Marty Minton Siegfried Schatzmann Donald Balasa Elliott Johnson Bruce A. Ware Nancy Leigh DeMoss S. Lewis Johnson, Jr. J. P. Moreland Thomas Schreiner S. M. Baugh Peter Jones Stu Weber Lane T. Dennis Paul Karleen J. Stanley Oakes Bob Slosser Timothy B. Bayly Rebecca Jones Thomas R. Edgar Charles & Rhonda Kelley Stephen F. Olford F. LaGard Smith James Borland Mary Kassian BOARD OF REFERENCE Jerry Falwell D. James Kennedy Raymond C. Ortlund, Jr. R. C. Sproul Austin Chapman Heather King Danny Akin John Frame Beverly LaHaye J. I. Packer Joseph M. Stowell, III Jack Cottrell George W. Knight, III Gary Almy Paul Gardner Gordon R. Lewis Paige Patterson Larry Walker J. Ligon Duncan, III Robert Lewis Gleason Archer W. Robert Godfrey Crawford & Karen Loritts Dennis & Barbara Rainey John F. Walvoord Steve Farrar C. J. Mahaney Hudson T. Armerding Bill H. Haynes Erwin Lutzer Pat Robertson William Weinrich Mary Farrar R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Wallace Benn Carl F. H. Henry John F. MacArthur, Jr. Adrian & Joyce Rogers Luder Whitlock Wayne A. Grudem Dorothy Patterson Tal Brooke David M. Howard Connie Marshner Robert Saucy Peter Williamson Daniel Heimbach John Piper Harold O. J. Brown R. Kent Hughes Richard Mayhue James Sauer 2 JBMW 6/1 (Spring 2001) 3 SPRING 2001 3. Adam’s headship in marriage was established by Executive God before the Fall, and was not a result of sin. Statement number three affirms that the roles mentioned Director’s in statement number two involve the headship of Adam before the Fall. There are several reasons why it is asserted that Column headship is taught in Genesis 1 and 2. Exposition of the Danvers First, Adam is created first. The concept of derivation Statement:Affirmations 1-3 and birth order comes into play here and Adam’s headship is assumed in as much as Eve is created subsequently. The fact that Adam is created first is clearly a very important part of the Randy Stinson narrative. He has a natural precedence by order of creation (cf. Executive Director, 1Cor. 11:3, 7-9; 1 Tim. 2: 11-13). Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Second, man’s headship is designated by the woman’s Louisville, Kentucky creation to be his helper. Woman was, out of all the creatures uniquely suited for the man, thus signifying her unique equality with him. But her designation as Adam’s helper shows that there is a distinct difference in their roles. Not only is Adam formed first, but God also gives him land, an occupation, and a wife—who is created to be his helper (cf. 1 Cor.11:7-9). Third, the naming function of Adam suggests headship. The first three affirmations of the Danvers Statement begin Adam is given the responsibility by God to name the animals where the Bible itself begins—in the Garden of Eden, prior to over which he was given dominion. The responsibility of the Fall. It is here that we see a picture of manhood and naming each animal reflected the nature of each and was womanhood before sin entered the world. a reminder to Adam that none was his equal. This is why upon seeing the woman for the first time Adam makes his “bone of my bone” declaration.