Man and Woman: A Zondervan Digital Short
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Why did God create two sexes? Can men and women be equal and yet have different roles?
Derived from Wayne Grudem’s perennial bestseller, Systematic Theology, this digital short summarizes the Bible’s teaching on men and women.
Complementarian in perspective, Grudem explores the dignity of men and woman as well their differences, with special attention paid to the implications of those differences for marriage. The creation of humans as male and female shows God's image in:
- Harmonious personal relationships.
- Equality in personhood and importance.
- Difference in role and authority.
Both clarifying and challenging, Man and Woman is an accessible resource on a historic teaching of the Christian church.
Wayne A. Grudem
Wayne Grudem is distinguished research professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds degrees from Harvard (AB), Westminster Theological Seminary (MDiv, DD), and Cambridge (PhD). He is the author of more than 30 books including the bestselling Systematic Theology.
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Man and Woman - Wayne A. Grudem
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Zondervan logoMan and Woman
Previously published in Systematic Theology
Copyright © 1994 by Wayne Grudem
Appendix 6 and glossary copyright © 2000 by Wayne Grudem
Requests for information should be addressed to:
Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530
EPub Edition JANUARY 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0-310-49622-9
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, and are used by permission. However, the author has, with permission, modernized archaic personal pronouns and has changed the verbs accordingly.
Scripture quotations marked NASB are from the New American Standard Bible, copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972 by the Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. Used by permission.
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Man and Woman: Man as Male and Female
Why did God create two sexes? Can men and women be equal and yet have different roles?
Man and Woman
Man As Male and Female
Why did God create two sexes? Can men and women be equal and yet have different roles?
EXPLANATION AND SCRIPTURAL BASIS
One aspect of man’s creation in the image of God is his creation as male and female: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Gen. 1:27). The same connection between creation in the image of God and creation as male and female is made in Genesis 5:1–2, "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created."¹ Although the creation of man as male and female is not the only way in which we are in the image of