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  • Tony Wilmot Memorial Library

Men and women in the church : Building consensus on Christian leadership /

Sumner Sarah.

Men and women in the church : Building consensus on Christian leadership / Sarah Sumner. - IVP Books Downers Grove, Illinois, c2003. - 332 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]) and indexes.

My story -- The purpose of this book -- The primacy of Scripture -- Exceptional women -- Is it better to be a man than a woman? -- Women and personhood -- Men and manhood -- Masculinity and femininity -- The authority of biblical metaphors -- Every passage in the Bible means something -- What's a "weaker vessel"? -- No pictures, please -- The husband is the head -- How does God head Christ? -- The mystery of headship -- Does Matthew 18 apply to wives? -- In the name of 1 Timothy 2 -- The order of creation -- It was Adam, and not Adam -- The significance of Adam being created first -- The fault line -- Thomists and Scotists -- Jesus is the logic -- Brothers and sisters in Christ -- Following in the steps of Jesus Christ.

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2002152086

BV 652.1.S86 2003 / BV 652.1.S86 2003

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