This is not just another book on the perennial issue of male headship. In contrast to those many who regard Christianity as the great source of male domination, this book argues that authentic Christianity does not teach that husbands have spiritual superiority over their wives, and its authors listen to and engage voices that still claim that it does. / Written by distinguished Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars, the book first demonstrates how deep strands of the Christian tradition have always taught an ethic of gender mutuality, sowing the seeds for what is today called the "equal-regard marriage." Though patriarchy was pervasive in the ancient world surrounding early Christianity and sometimes influenced the church, new research shows that the earliest layers of Christianity both resisted and worked to transform it. Not every author in the book agrees with this point of view; dissenters have their say too. As a whole, Does Christianity Teach Male Headship? constitutes a robust debate that, finally, invites readers to decide.
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David Blankenhorn is founder and president of the Institute for American Values, a private, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, publication, and public education on issues of family well being and civil society. / Blankenhorn has co-edited four books of essays: Rebuilding the Nest: A New Commitment to the American Family (1990); Seedbeds of Virtue: Sources of Competence, Character, and Citizenship in American Society (1995); Promises to Keep: Decline and Renewal of Marriage in America (1996); and The Fatherhood Movement (1999). / In 1994, Blankenhorn helped to found the National Fatherhood Initiative, serving as that organization's founding chairman. He also serves on the board of directors of the National Parenting Association. In 1992, he was appointed by President Bush to serve on the National Commission on America's Urban Families. A frequent lecturer, Blankenhorn's ideas have been cited in Time, Newsweek, the Economist, and elsewhere, and his articles have appeared in scores of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Christianity Today. He has been profiled by the CBS Evening News and other news organizations, and has been featured on numerous national television programs, including Oprah, 20/20, The Today Show, Charlie Rose, and ABC Evening News. / Prior to founding the Institute in 1987, Blankenhorn worked as a community organizer in Virginia and Massachusetts. He served two years as a VISTA Volunteer. A native of Jackson, Mississippi, he founded the Mississippi Community Service Corps and the Virginia Community Service Corps in high school. In 1977, he graduated magna cum laude in social studies from Harvard, where he was president of Phillips Brooks House, the campus community service center, and the recipient of a John Knox Fellowship. In 1978, he was awarded an M.A. with distinction in comparative social history from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. / Blankenhorn lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
Don S. Browning is Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago Divinity School and director of the Lilly Project on Religion, Culture, and the Family. He is coauthor of From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate and serves as coeditor of the Religion, Marriage, and Family series (Eerdmans).
Professor of psychology and philosophy at Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania.
Don S. Browning is Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago Divinity School and director of the Lilly Project on Religion, Culture, and the Family. He is coauthor of From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate and serves as coeditor of the Religion, Marriage, and Family series (Eerdmans).
Professor of psychology and philosophy at Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania.
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This review is from: Does Christianity Teach Male Headship?: The Equal-Regard Marriage and Its Critics (Paperback)
The issue of the relationship between men and women is a vexed and complex issue. Plenty of volumes have been written on this contentious debate. Does Scripture teach a patriarchal model, or an egalitarian model, or indeed, some other model? Should men rule in the home and women submit, and if so, to what extent? Can men and women be fully equal yet have different roles and functions?
These questions have been dealt with extensively over the years, with volumes on all sides of the debate appearing on a regular basis. Many deal just with the theological, biblical and hermeneutical issues. Other deal more with the social, historical and philosophical questions.
This volume tries to do a bit of each. It features theologians, to be sure, but also has sociologists, family experts, and others entering the debate. Catholic and Protestant voices are both heard. And social issues, such as the honour-shame culture of the Greco-Roman world, early household codes, and contemporary concerns about father absence, are all featured in this spirited collection of essays.
The first half of the volume features six proponents of the "equal-regard marriage" which rejects the concept of male headship. Five critics of this position are then given equal time, in which they reaffirm a male headship model as the biblical norm.
An introductory essay by David Blankenhorn and a concluding essay by Don Browning round off this collection of important articles. New light is shed on a long standing debate, with various innovative perspectives brought to bear on the discussion. One suspects that many people will come to this volume with their minds already made up, but the volume?s new insights and approaches may result in some new thinking on the issue.
The editors are to be congratulated for bringing together this collection of informed and cogent essays. The debate will not be resolved here, but it will be made more clear and further advanced by this helpful book.
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This book allows scholars to take different positions on this topic and to explain the way that headship was assumed rather than proscribed in the Bible. Lisa Sowle Cahill explains the position of Pope John Paul in a very accessible way that helped me to better understand his philosophy of revering the function of motherhood. An excellent brief summary of the various views of this topic.
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I was truly looking for a balanced book that would give me the best arguments of both sides (or even additional sides if there are any.)
However, the essays used for equality were not nearly the best available. The book's compilers did not include a single essay where the authors were both for equality AND were believers in Biblical inerrancy (and, yes, there are people who fit this description.) Not to mention that the essays were really quite dry and uninteresting.
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servant headship, teach male headship, male problematic, soft patriarchy, kin altruism, equal regard, paternal certainty, conjugal authority, marital ethic, paternal recognition, household codes, mutual subjection, intersubjective dialogue, family debate, male responsibility, cultural mandate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Testament, John Paul, New York, Carolyn Osiek, Don Browning, John Knox, David Balch, Summa Theologica, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Promise Keepers, Christ Jesus, James Fitzjames Stephen, John Stuart Mill, Nicomachean Ethics, Old Testament, Vocation of Women, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Judith Plaskow, Thomas Aquinas, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Feminist Ethics, Grand Rapids, Honor Your Fathers, John Henry Newman New!
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servant headship, teach male headship, male problematic, soft patriarchy, kin altruism, equal regard, paternal certainty, conjugal authority, marital ethic, paternal recognition, household codes, mutual subjection, intersubjective dialogue, family debate, male responsibility, cultural mandate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Testament, John Paul, New York, Carolyn Osiek, Don Browning, John Knox, David Balch, Summa Theologica, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Promise Keepers, Christ Jesus, James Fitzjames Stephen, John Stuart Mill, Nicomachean Ethics, Old Testament, Vocation of Women, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Judith Plaskow, Thomas Aquinas, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Feminist Ethics, Grand Rapids, Honor Your Fathers, John Henry Newman New!
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- From Culture Wars to Common Ground, Second Edition: Religion and the American Family Debate by Don S. Browning on 7 pages
- The Summa Theologica (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 19 & 20) by Thomas Aquinas on 5 pages
- Families in the New Testament World by Carolyn Osiek on 4 pages
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- Sex, Sin, and Grace: Women's Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich by Judith Plaskow on page 19, page 57, and page 59
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