Gender Grace: Love, Work Parenting in a Changing World

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InterVarsity Press, 03.05.1990 - 278 Seiten
  • Winner of a 1991 Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award (1st place; contemporary issues).

How are men and women different?

How does being a male or a female affect us at work? What are the roles of husband and wife in marriage and parenting? What does Christianity have to do with any of these things?

Sexual identity lies at the core of the crucial questions that everyone asks of life. Yet today those questions are harder and harder to answer. Traditions about the "real man" and the "woman's place" have been challenged. Scientists debate what nature actually dictates for male and female. And theologians engage in heated controversy over what the Bible really says about female submission and male headship.

In this sane yet provocative book, an informed social scientist and committed Christian thinker braves a jungle of confusion to offer unusual insight on the part genes, culture and faith play in making us the men and women we are -- and ought to become.

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Inhalt

Preface
9
Why Read This Book?
17
Male and Female in the Biblical Drama
33
How to Think about Sex and Gender
53
Genes and Gender
75
Hormones and Hemispheres
89
Nature Culture and Common Grace
107
The Persistence of Patriarchy
125
The Case for CoParenting
145
Marriage Family and the Kingdom of God
165
Gender Work and Christian Vocation
189
Sexual Values in a Secular Age
209
All Things Made New
231
Notes
251
Index
277
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Autoren-Profil (1990)

Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen is professor of psychology and philosophy at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. She taught at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Michigan) for many years, and she has been a senior editor of Christianity Today. Currently she is a contributing editor for Books Culture. Van Leeuwen has written, cowritten, and contributed to several books, including The Psychology of Intergroup Relations (with L. Kidder, McGraw-Hill, 1975), The Person in Psychology (Eerdmans, 1985), After Eden (one of several contributors, Eerdmans, 1993), Religion, Feminism the Family (co-editor, Westminster John Knox, 1996), The Family Handbook (co-editor, Westminster John Knox, 1998) and Women and the Future of the Family (with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Mardi Keyes and Stanley Grenz, Baker, 2000).

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelGender Grace: Love, Work Parenting in a Changing World
Autor/inMary Stewart Van Leeuwen
VerlagInterVarsity Press, 1990
ISBN0830812970, 9780830812974
Länge278 Seiten
  
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