Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscov

Description: Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose by Aimee Byrd Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood presents a critique and an alternative to the push for biblical womanhood and biblical manhood today, focusing on the reciprocity of the male and female voices in Scripture, the covenantal aspect to Bible reading and interpretation, and bearing the fruit of that in our church life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book dismantles every mistruth that youve heard about the role of women in the Bible, her place in the church, and the patriarchal lie of so-called "biblical manhood and womanhood." In its place, Aimee Byrd details a truly biblical vision of women as equal partners in Christs church and kingdom. The church is the school of Christ, commissioned to discipleship. The responsibility of every believer—men and women together—is being active and equal participants in and witnesses to the faith. And yet many women are trying to figure out what their place is in the church, fighting to have their voices heard and filled with questions:Do men and women benefit equally from Gods wordAre we equally responsible in sharpening one another in the faith and passing it down to the next generationDo we really need mens Bibles and womens Bibles, or can the one Holy Bible guide us allThe answers lie neither with radical feminists, who claim that the Bible is hopelessly patriarchal, nor with the defenders of "biblical manhood," whose understanding of Scripture is captive to the culture they claim to distance themselves from.Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood presents a more biblical account of gender, marriage, and ministry. It explores the feminine voice in Scripture as synergistic with the dominant male voice. It fortifies churches in a biblical understanding of brotherhood and sisterhood in Gods household and the necessity of learning from one another in studying Gods word.Until both men and women grow in their understanding of their relationship to Scripture, there will continue to be tension between the sexes in the church. Church leaders can be engaged in thoughtful critique of the biblical manhood and womanhood movement, the effects it has on their congregation, and the homage it ironically pays to the culture of individualism that works against church, family, and a Christ-like vision of community. Author Biography Aimee Byrd is author, speaker, blogger, podcaster, and former coffee shop owner. Aimee is author of several books, including Housewife Theologian (P&R, 2013), Theological Fitness (P&R, 2015), No Little Women (P&R, 2016), and Why Cant We Be Friends? (P&R, 2018). Her articles have appeared in First Things, Table Talk, Modern Reformation, By Faith, New Horizons, Ordained Servant, Harvest USA, and Credo Magazine and she has been interviewed and quoted in Christianity Today and The Atlantic. She is the cohost of Mortification of Spin podcast for The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and regularly blogs there as well. Aimee and her husband have three children and reside in Brunswick, Maryland. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION: The Churchs Yellow WallpaperPART ONE: RECOVERING THE WAY WE READ SCRIPTURECHAPTER ONE: Why Men and Women Dont Read Separate BiblesCHAPTER TWO: Why Not the Book of Boaz?CHAPTER THREE: Girl InterruptedPART TWO: RECOVERING OUR MISSIONCHAPTER FOUR: Why Our Aim Is Not Biblical Manhood and WomanhoodCHAPTER FIVE: What the Church Is ForCHAPTER SIX: The Great Divorce That We Didnt See ComingPART THREE: RECOVERING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERY BELIEVERCHAPTER SEVEN: Is This the Way It Was Supposed to Be?CHAPTER EIGHT: When Paul Passed Phoebe the Baton Review After years of vigorous and insightful interaction, egalitarians and complementarians today have too often retreated to their own tribes, even setting up requirements for membership unlike any in the history of the church. Fortunately, there are also several recent writers who defy simplistic categorization or labeling, who are calling on the church to consider new and healthy directions with respect to just what the Bible does and doesnt teach about being faithful Christian women and men. Aimee Byrd is one of these writers, and people from every perspective on the topic can learn much from her study of Scripture and of history as well as her personal experience. * CRAIG L. BLOMBERG, distinguished professor of New Testament, Denver Seminary *Aimee Byrd has written a book that will impact the church-and-gender conversation for years to come. Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood doesnt only expose the emptiness of so-called biblical manhood and womanhood teaching, it presents a vision of true Christian complementarity defined by empowered women, sibling love, and union with Christ. Saturated in Scripture and rooted in a strong theological tradition, this is the book that Aimee has been working toward for years. I thank God that its here. * MARCOS ORTEGA, assistant pastor, Goodwill Church (EPC), founder of Reformed Margins and cohost of the Family Discussion podcast *I am not a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I have a prediction. Many people who havent read Aimee Byrds book will praise her for positions she does not hold and criticize her for things she does not believe. But lets hope Im wrong. Why? Because it would be wonderful if all of us might listen attentively to a sister who is calling all believers--women and men--to grow in their love of Scripture even as she asks us to recognize our blind spots and problematic assumptions. Here is an author who cares deeply that our worship is biblical, trinitarian, and consistently leading to and promoting a holy communion of the saints. * KELLY M. KAPIC, author of The God Who Gives: How the Trinity Shapes the Christian Story *If there is a slippery subject in the church today, its biblical manhood and womanhood. Were confused by the disagreements, constricted by the rules, and seemingly helpless to discern whats true. This is why Aimee Byrds book is so important. Wading through the cultural murkiness, Byrd returns us to Scripture with theological rigor. I celebrate her strong voice and urgent plea to recover a better vision--for the good of the family and the church. * JEN POLLOCK MICHEL, award-winning author of Surprised by Paradox and Keeping Place *The biblical-manhood-and-womanhood movement has generated more heat than light because it has failed to recognize that its own pet theories of manhood and womanhood derive more from black-and-white TV of the 1950s--think of Timmys mom and dad in Lassie--than from the Bible. What makes this obvious are the many studies on what it was like to be a man or a woman in the time of Barak and Deborah, Ruth and David, or the Syrophoenician woman and Jesus, or Priscilla and Paul in their Greco-Roman world. We now know that the so-called manhood-and-womanhood movement is a set of cultural ideas imposed on the Bible itself. Byrd offers here enduring wisdom and wit about how we as Christians ought to relate to one another as coed colaborers. * SCOT MCKNIGHT, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary *What if I told you that so-called biblical manhood and womanhood was not really biblical? What if I told you that biblical manhood and womanhood was in fact an artificial construct of white, suburban, affluent, middle-class culture in the post-World War II era with its weird marriage of consumerism and patriarchy. Curious? Well, if youre up to it, follow Aimee Byrd down the rabbit hole, and she will deconstruct every mistruth that youve been sold about the Bible and women, and then shell give you a more biblical and genuinely Christian account of men, women, and ministry. But be warned! Once you go down this trail, there is no going back; you wont view marriage or ministry the same way ever again. This book could provide the gender reset that evangelical churches have needed for a long time. No, not a dour and dismal descent into liberalism but the beginning of a true recovery of the biblical vision of women as partners in the church of Christ and the gospel. Byrd is bringing down the #GenderReformation to crush biblical manhood under the weight of its interpretive incredulity, its pastoral irresponsibility, its refusal to listen to female voices, and its captivity to culture. * REV. DR. MICHAEL F. BIRD, academic dean and lecturer in theology at Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia *With a deep reverence for Scripture and a sincere search for truth, Aimee Byrd peels back the layers of culturally informed teachings on gender that keep both women and men from flourishing in Christ and in relationship with each other. This is the book that Christians who have been misled by popular notions of biblical manhood and womanhood--but who still believe that maleness and femaleness are meaningful categories in the church, home, and society--have been waiting for. * KATELYN BEATY, author, A Womans Place * Long Description While evangelicalism dukes it out about who can be church leaders, the rest of the 98% of us need to be well equipped to see where we fit in Gods household and why that matters. Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood is a resource to help church leaders improve the culture of their church and disciple men and women in their flock to read, understand, and apply Scripture to our lives in the church. Until both men and women grow in their understanding of their relationship to Scripture, there will continue to be tension between the sexes in the church. Church leaders need to be engaged in thoughtful critique of the biblical manhood and womanhood movement and the effects it has on their congregation. Do men and women benefit equally from Gods word? Are they equally responsible in sharpening one another in the faith and passing it down to the next generation? While radical feminists claim that the Bible is a hopelessly patriarchal construction by powerful men that oppresses women, evangelical churches simply reinforce this teaching when we constantly separate men and women, customizing womens resources and studies according to a culturally based understanding of roles. Do we need mens Bibles and womens Bibles, or can the one, holy Bible guide us all? Is the Bible, Gods word, so male-centered and authored that women need to create their own resources to relate to it? No! And in it, we also learn from women. Women play an active role as witnesses to the faith, passing it on to the new generations. This book explores the feminine voice in Scripture as synergistic with the dominant male voice. Through the women, we often get the story behind the story--take Ruth for example, or the birth of Christ through the perspective of Mary and Elizabeth in Luke. Aimee fortifies churches in a biblical understanding of brotherhood and sisterhood in Gods household and the necessity of learning from one another in studying Gods word. The troubling teaching under the rubric of "biblical manhood and womanhood" has thrived with the help of popular Biblicist interpretive methods. And Biblicist interpretive methods ironically flourish in our individualistic culture that works against the "traditional values" of family and community that the biblical manhood and womanhood movement is trying to uphold. This book helps to correct Biblicist trends in the church today, affirming that we do not read Gods word alone, we read it within our interpretive covenant communities--our churches. Our relationship with Gods word affects our relationship with Gods people, and vice versa. The church is the school of Christ, commissioned to discipleship. The responsibility of every believer, men and women together, is being active and equal participants in and witnesses to the faith--the tradents of faith. Review Quote What if I told you that so-called biblical manhood and womanhood was not really biblical? What if I told you that biblical manhood and womanhood was in fact an artificial construct of white, suburban, affluent, middle-class culture in the post-World War II era with its weird marriage of consumerism and patriarchy. Curious? Well, if youre up to it, follow Aimee Byrd down the rabbit hole, and she will deconstruct every mistruth that youve been sold about the Bible and women, and then shell give you a more biblical and genuinely Christian account of men, women, and ministry. But be warned! Once you go down this trail, there is no going back; you wont view marriage or ministry the same way ever again. This book could provide the gender reset that evangelical churches have needed for a long time. No, not a dour and dismal descent into liberalism but the beginning of a true recovery of the biblical vision of women as partners in the church of Christ and the gospel. Byrd is bringing down the #GenderReformation to crush biblical manhood under the weight of its interpretive incredulity, its pastoral irresponsibility, its refusal to listen to female voices, and its captivity to culture. Details ISBN0310108713 Author Aimee Byrd Publisher Zondervan Year 2020 ISBN-10 0310108713 ISBN-13 9780310108719 Format Paperback Imprint Zondervan Subtitle How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose Place of Publication Grand Rapids Country of Publication United States Pages 240 Language English Publication Date 2020-06-11 US Release Date 2020-06-11 UK Release Date 2020-06-11 Edited by Henry P. 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