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

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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.

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.

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.