Spring 2009 • VOLUME XIV • ISSUE 1 The Danvers Statement JBMW 14/1 Based on our understanding of Biblical teachings, we affirm the following: 1. Both Adam and Eve were created 5. The Old Testament, as well as the implies a mandate to follow a human in God’s image, equal before God as New Testament, manifests the equally authority into sin (Dan. 3:10-18; Acts THE JOURNAL FOR BIBLICAL persons and distinct in their manhood high value and dignity which God 4:19-20, 5:27-29; 1 Pet. 3:1-2). and womanhood (Gen. 1:26-27, 2:18). attached to the roles of both men and women (Gen. 1:26-27, 2:18; Gal. 3:28). Both Old and New Testaments also 8. In both men and women a heartfelt 2. Distinctions in masculine and femi- affirm the principle of male headship in sense of call to ministry should never nine roles are ordained by God as part the family and in the covenant com- be used to set aside biblical criteria for of the created order, and should find an munity (Gen. 2:18; Eph. 5:21-33; Col. particular ministries (1 Tim. 2:11-15, echo in every human heart (Gen. 2:18, 3:18-19; 1 Tim. 2:11-15). 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9). Rather, biblical 21-24; 1 Cor. 11:7-9; 1 Tim. 2:12-14). teaching should remain the authority for testing our subjective discernment 6. Redemption in Christ aims at of God’s will. 3. Adam’s headship in marriage was removing the distortions introduced by established by God before the Fall, and the curse. was not a result of sin (Gen. 2:16-18, 9. With half the world’s population 21-24, 3:1-13; 1 Cor. 11:7-9). • In the family, husbands should forsake outside the reach of indigenous evan- JBMW harsh or selfish leadership and grow gelism; with countless other lost people in love and care for their wives; wives in those societies that have heard the 4. The Fall introduced distortions into should forsake resistance to their gospel; with the stresses and miseries MANHOOD & WOMANHOOD the relationships between men and husbands’ authority and grow in willing, of sickness, malnutrition, homeless- women (Gen. 3:1-7, 12, 16). joyful submission to their husbands’ ness, illiteracy, ignorance, aging, ad- leadership (Eph. 5:21-33; Col. 3:18-19; diction, crime, incarceration, neuroses, • In the home, the husband’s loving, Titus 2:3-5; 1 Pet. 3:1-7). and loneliness, no man or woman who humble headship tends to be replaced feels a passion from God to make His by domination or passivity; the wife’s • In the church, redemption in Christ grace known in word and deed need intelligent, willing submission tends to gives men and women an equal share ever live without a fulfilling ministry for Spring 2009 be replaced by usurpation or servility. in the blessings of salvation; neverthe- the glory of Christ and the good of this less, some governing and teaching fallen world (1 Cor. 12:7-21). • In the church, sin inclines men toward roles within the church are restricted to a worldly love of power or an abdication men (Gal. 3:28; 1 Cor. 11:2-16; 1 Tim. of spiritual responsibility and inclines 2:11-15). 10. We are convinced that a denial or women to resist limitations on their roles neglect of these principles will lead to Articles Include: or to neglect the use of their gifts in ap- increasingly destructive consequences propriate ministries. 7. In all of life Christ is the supreme in our families, our churches, and the authority and guide for men and culture at large. women, so that no earthly submission A Review of Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet —domestic, religious, or civil—ever Thomas R. Schreiner Personal Reflections on the History of CBMW and the State of the Gender Debate NON PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID Wayne Grudem 2825 Lexington Road • Box 926 LOUISVILLE, KY Louisville, KY 40280 PERMIT #1545 Sweet Sacrifices: The Challenges of a Woman in Ministry Jani Ortlund Order in the Court: God’s Plan for Marriage James MacDonald The Metaphysics of Subordination: A Response to Rebecca Merrill Groothuis Steven B. Cowan Spring 2009 – Volume XIV, Issue 1 THE JOURNAL FOR BIBLICAL MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD Table of Contents is a biannual publication of the Standard Fare Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 2 Editorial ISSN: 1544-5143 CBMW 6 Odds & Ends President Essays & Perspectives Randy Stinson 12 Personal Reflections on the History of CBMW JBMW STAFF Editor and the State of the Gender Debate Denny Burk Wayne Grudem Associate Editor 18 On the Loquacity of Women, Homeboys, and 1 Tim 2:11-12 Christopher W. Cowan Peter R. Schemm Jr. Contributing Editor 22 Sweet Sacrifices: The Challenges of a Woman in Ministry Jeff D. Breeding Jani Ortlund Assistant Editor Studies Dawn Jones 29 Jesus and the Feminists: Case Studies in Feminist Hermeneutics Senior Consulting Editors J. Ligon Duncan, III Margaret Elizabeth KÖstenberger Wayne Grudem 39 Different Rules for Different Cultures? Rebecca Jones A Respnse to James R. Payton Jr. Peter R. Schemm Jr. James W. Scott Bruce A. Ware 43 The Metaphysics of Subordination: Layout and Design A Response to Rebecca Merrill Groothuis John Rogers Steven B. Cowan Contributors R. Albert Mohler Jr. From the Sacred Desk Russell D. Moore 54 Order in the Court: God’s Plan for Marriage Nancy Leigh DeMoss James MacDonald Editorial Correspondence Gender Studies in Review [email protected] 60 Who’s Explaining Away Blue Parakeets? Subscription Correspondence A Review of Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet [email protected] Thomas R. Schreiner Orders and Subscriptions Single issue price $10.00. 68 Rob Bell’s “Feminine Images” for God Subscriptions available at $15.00 per year. A Review of Rob Bell, NOOMA: “She” Canadian Subscriptions $20.00 per year. Christopher W. Cowan International Subscriptions $25.00 per year. Ten or more copies 71 The Definitive Analysis of 1 Timothy 2:12 to the same address, $12.00 per year. A Review of A. J. Köstenberger and T. R. Schreiner, ed., Contact CBMW for institutional rates. Women in the Church 2825 Lexington Road • Box 926 Andrew David Naselli Louisville, Kentucky 40280 502.897.4065 (voice) 74 A Solid Primer on the Gender Debate 502.897.4061 (fax) A Review of Jack Cottrell, Headship, Submission and the Bible [email protected] (e-mail) Jason Hall www.cbmw.org (web) 76 What Was This Body and Soul Made For? ©2009 CBMW. The mission of the A Review of Peter Jones The God of Sex Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood is to set forth the teachings Owen D. Strachan of the Bible about the complementary 78 Beholding the Wonder of the Trinity differences between men and women, created equal in the image of God, A Review of Bruce A. Ware, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit because these teachings are essential for Micah Daniel Carter obedience to Scripture and for the health 81 Looking for More in the Wrong Places of the family and the Church. 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Breeding JBMW | Spring 2009 1 Standard Fare Editorial: A Collision of Worldviews and the Complementarian Response Denny Burk Editor, The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Dean of Boyce College Associate Professor of New Testament The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky Gender Confusion at SBL They seek to read the Bible as those who would The Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender/ “interrogate” traditions (biblical and otherwise) Queer Hermeneutics Section is a regular part of that they deem to be oppressive to that end.3 the program at the annual meeting of the Society I sat in for a portion of the LGBT/Queer of Biblical Literature (SBL).1 The average lay per- Hermeneutics Section at the annual SBL meeting son would probably be nonplussed by the existence this past November in Boston. What I heard there of such a group, given that a plain reading of the was both startling and sobering. The presentation Old and New Testaments seems to militate against that I attended featured a female theologian from a a homosexual lifestyle. But for those who have been small seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. She delivered following recent developments in the academic a paper on Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians— study of the scripture, this group is no surprise at a presentation which included a variety of vulgar all. It merely follows a trend that has become stan- double-entendres involving the text of scripture dard fare for a whole sector of biblical and religious and which would hardly be useful to repeat here. studies. Among other things, the LGBT/Queer What was noteworthy, however, was her Hermeneutics Section aims to explore “the inter- stance toward the apostle Paul, which was decid- sections between queer readers and biblical inter- edly antagonistic. Going against the current trend pretations.”2 In general, participants in this section of counterimperial readings of Paul, she said that support the normalization of homosexual orienta- Paul was not “anti-imperial” but “alternate impe- tion and practice in spite of what the Bible teaches. rial.” She complained that Paul’s letters reveal an COUncil members Daniel Heimbach Dorothy Patterson Nancy Leigh DeMoss Charles S. & Rhonda H. Kelley J. Stanley Oakes Joseph M. Stowell III Daniel L. Akin H. Wayne House John Piper Lane T.