Does Christianity Teach Male Headship (Religion, Marriage, and Family): The Equal-Regard Marriage and Its Critics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802821715 ISBN 13: 9780802821713

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003

Synopsis

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.Contributors: David BlankenhornDon BrowningLisa Sowle CahillAllan C. CarlsonDaniel Mark CereMaggie GallagherW. Robert GodfreyBonnie Miller-McLemoreJohn W. MillerCarolyn OsiekMary Stewart Van LeeuwenJohn Witte Jr.

About this title

About the Author:

Blankenhorn is founder and president of the Institute for American Values and has long been a key figure in the public debate on marriage and the family as well as a prominent leader in the fatherhood movement. He is the founder of the Council on Families in Ameria.

Van Leeuwen has written, cowritten, and contributed to several books, includingThe 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 Women and the Future of the Family (with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Mardi Keyes and Stanley Grenz, Baker, 2000).

Don S. Browning is Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0802821715
• ISBN 13: 9780802821713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Blankenhorn David, Van Leeuwen Mary Stewart, Browning Don