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Gender & Grace Love, Work & Parenting in a Changing World

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ISBN-10: 0830812970

ISBN-13: 9780830812974

Edition: 1990

Authors: Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

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Winner of a 1991 Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award (1st place; contemporary issues).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. 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. And theologians engage in heated controversy over what the Bible really says about female submission and…    
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 5/3/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.24" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen is professor of psychology and philosophy at Eastern University in St. 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. Kidder, McGraw-Hill, 1975), The Person in Psychology (Eerdmans, 1985), After Eden (one of several contributors, Eerdmans, 1993), Religion, Feminism the Family (co-editor, Westminster John Knox, 1996), The Family Handbook (co-editor, Westminster John Knox, 1998) and…    

Preface
Understanding the Issues
Why Read This Book?
Male and Female in the Biblical Drama
How to Think about Sex and Gender
Nature and Nurture
Genes and Gender
Hormones and Hemispheres
Nature, Culture and Common Grace
Parents and Partners
The Persistence of Patriarchy
The Case for Co-Parenting
Marriage, Family and the Kingdom of God
Achievement and Attraction
Gender, Work and Christian Vocation
Sexual Values in a Secular Age
All Things Made New
Notes
Index