God's Design for Man and Woman: A Biblical-Theological Survey
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Equipping a New Generation to Live Out God’s Design
This thorough study of the Bible’s teaching on men and women aims to help a new generation of Christians live for Christ in today’s world. Moving beyond other treatments that primarily focus on select passages, this winsome volume traces Scripture’s overarching pattern related to male-female relationships in both the Old and New Testaments. Those interested in careful discussion rather than caustic debate will discover that God’s design is not confining or discriminatory but beautiful, wise, liberating, and good.
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- Equips readers to grasp the beauty, utility, and missional importance of being created in God’s image
- Traces Scripture's overarching pattern related to male-female relationships in both the Old and New Testaments
- Employs sound hermeneutical principles, and considers important historical influences related to the Bible’s teaching on manhood and womanhood
- God’s Original Design and Its Corruption (Genesis 1–3)
- Patriarchs, Kings, Priests, and Prophets (Old Testament)
- What Did Jesus Do? (Gospels)
- What Did the Early Church Do? (Acts)
- Paul’s Message to the Churches (First Ten Letters)
- Paul’s Legacy (Letters to Timothy and Titus)
- The Rest of the Story (Other New Testament Teaching)
- God’s Design Lived Out Today
- Appendix 1: The Three Waves: Women’s History Survey
- Appendix 2: The Rules of the Game: Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology
- Appendix 3: Proceed with Caution: Special Issues in Interpreting Gender Passages
Top Highlights
“Instead of God’s authority being mediated from Adam to Eve to the rest of creation, the biblical fall narrative recounts how the Serpent (Satan) approached Eve, who took the initiative, with Adam following her lead, in breaking God’s commandment.” (source)
“teaches that the primary means of carrying out humanity’s representative rule is that of procreation.” (source)
“indicates that ruling the earth is a joint function of the man and the woman.” (source)
“shows the serious consequences of the fall on the male-female relationship” (source)
“creation purpose and mandate for humanity as male and female” (source)
The eclipse of the family in human society is one of the most disastrous developments of our age. Sadly, the eclipse of the biblical model of marriage and family has also happened within far too many evangelical churches. Andreas and Margaret Köstenberger come to the rescue with biblical and theological insight and practical wisdom.
R. Albert Mohler Jr., President and Centennial Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Models the best of Christian discernment about matters of gender, theology, justice, roles, and gifts. It is faithful in its representation both of God’s character and our own propensity to sin, pastoral in its application of faithful biblical hermeneutics, insightful in its explanation of original word usages and their application, concise in its framing of hot-button issues and the hermeneutical fallacies that often fuel them, and charitable in its handling of the motives of those who disagree.
Rosaria Butterfield, Former Professor of English, Syracuse University; author, The Gospel Comes with a House Key
Moving beyond debates that discuss men’s and women’s roles in isolation from one another, Andreas and Margaret Köstenberger take a biblical-theological approach that seeks to understand God’s design for men and women from the progressively unfolding narrative of Scripture. Responding to the profound influence of feminism, the authors call on men to exercise leadership in ways that exhibit genuine care and responsibility for those they are charged to nurture and protect.
Daniel I. Block, Gunther H. Knoedler Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Wheaton College; author, The Triumph of Grace and For the Glory of God
Reviews
1 rating
Gage Terrell
7/18/2024
This book is a great introduction and survey of God's design for men and woman. Male leadership and male-female partnership is seen from Genesis 1 all the way to the end of the Bible. This book is worth it's appendices alone.