Men and Women in the Church : Building Consensus on Christian Leadership /
Sarah Sumner
- Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 2003
- 332 p. ; 21 cm.
My story -- The purpose of this book -- The primacy of Scripture -- Exceptional women -- Is it better to be a man than a woman? -- Women and personhood -- Men and manhood -- Masculinity and femininity -- The authority of biblical metaphors -- Every passage in the Bible means something -- What's a "weaker vessel"? -- No pictures, please -- The husband is the head -- How does God head Christ? -- The mystery of headship -- Does Matthew 18 apply to wives? -- In the name of 1 Timothy 2 -- The order of creation -- It was Adam, and not Adam -- The significance of Adam being created first -- The fault line -- Thomists and Scotists -- Jesus is the logic -- Brothers and sisters in Christ -- Following in the steps of Jesus Christ.