Gender & Grace: Love, Work & Parenting in a Changing World
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (734 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0830812970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"All Christians who make the advancement of God's kingdom their highest priority will profit from this book." (Christian Home and School)"With unusual competence in both psychology and Scripture, Van Leeuwen brings fresh insights to crucial questions." (Alvera Mickelsen, board chair, Christians for Biblical Equality)
And theologians engage in heated controversy over what the Bible really says about female submission and male headship. 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. 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.. 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. Winner of a 1991 Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award (1st place; contemporary issues)
. 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. Mary Stewart Van L
"Smart and articulate" according to A Customer. The author combines scientific research and well reasoned arguments with a gift for communicating clearly. This is the most formative treatment I have read on the subject of gender issues.. Lytepoet said Very informative. I felt the book was basically unbiased. The author attempted to share multiple perspectives and she used a variety of individuals to present both sides of the arguments.. "This book is hard to read because it is so" according to Brittany A. Steffen. This book is hard to read because it is so obviously written through a lens of assumed "truths" about gender. If you the reader do not hold the same "universal truths" as the author, the whole thing quickly crumbles. The book is not written for a postmodern dialogue.