Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences [Hardcover]

Stephen B. Clark (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 768 pages
• Publisher: Tabor Publications, East Lansing, MI (June 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892830840
• ISBN-13: 978-0892830848
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most Complete Work on Gender Roles from Biblical Perspective, July 13, 1999

By 

[e-mail] - See all my reviews

This review is from: Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

The fact that this work has an Amazon sales rank greater than 200,000 says more about the state of our culture than it does the value of this book. The author is a Yale sociologist who uses knowledge of his chosen vocation to peruse scripture and church tradition for Christian teaching on gender roles. In a little less than 800 pages Clark offers up a stunning theology of how the church has responded to gender issues in the past and how we as modern-day believers should respond to this current hornet's nest of political correctness. I am so convinced of the importance of the gender issue debate and the strength of the work Clark has done in this book that I believe every Christian should read it. The Christian church is stagnating and ineffective in today's issue debates not because her positions are poor, but because she has become ignorant and apathetic.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book has shaped my worldview for the last two decades, October 6, 2004

By 

Scott W. Somerville (Derwood, MD) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

I read Clark's masterpiece in the late 1970s or early 1980s, and it has formed the bedrock of my thinking about men and women in (or out of) the Church ever since. I have had many years to evaluate new arguments and issues, and Clark's analysis keeps proving to be the soundest way of resolving each one. Clark is a rare scholar who unites a number of different disciplines in support of an original position which is fully consistent with Scripture.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough Work on Male and Female in Bible, April 12, 2001

By 

rodboomboom (Dearborn, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

Thorough interaction with biblical text, feminists and conservative elements on this difficult topic. Also, interacts with social sciences as subtitle suggests.

Find his documentation well done and so useful. The material on the scriptural teachings is much more useful to the Christian church than those dealing with the sociological, community issues.