Fall Issue of JBMW Now Available

The Fall 2008 issue of The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (JBMW) is now in print. We're grateful to have an outstanding line-up of contributors, including excerpts from two forthcoming books: Radical Womanhood by Carolyn McCulley and Jesus and the Feminists by Margaret Köstenberger, both due out this Fall.

The entire issue will become available online on February 1, 2009. Until then, you may access a few of the essays, including the following:

• "Editorial: A High Profile Conversion to Egalitarianism" by Denny Burk

• "How Shall We Speak of God? Seven Reasons Why We Cannot Call God Mother" by Randy L. Stinson and Christopher W. Cowan

• "Defenders of Women" by Susan Hunt

• "Answering Lottie Moon's Cry: A Call for Dialogue on the Role of Women in Missions" by David Kotter

• "Is This Good News for Women? A Review of Carolyn Custis James, The Gospel of Ruth" by Jennifer J. Naselli

Here's a preview of some of the other contributions:

Carolyn McCulley, "Raunch-Culture Rip-Off"

"It is natural for us to want to captivate a man's attention. But a Girls Gone Wild T-Shirt is no symbol of love. It's simply a badge of tawdry performance. It conveys no lasting security or honor or even attraction."

Margaret Köstenberger, "What's at Stake: ‘It's Hermeneutics!'"

"The point is that true freedom in life is not found in the abolishing of any authority over oneself, especially if it is God-ordained. Scripture presents men's authority in the home and in the church not as autocratic or grounded in male superiority or merit but in the mysterious, sovereign divine will subsumed under the lordship and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ."

Bruce Ware, "Equal in Essence, Distinct in Roles: Eternal Function Authority and Submission among the Essentially Equal Persons of the Godhead"

"I cannot say why Kevin Giles omitted the very portion of the quotation that supported my claim that Augustine affirms the pre-incarnate authority of the Father over the Son. But whatever the reason, the fact remains that Augustine affirms both the essential equality of the Father and the Son along with the pre-incarnate functional subordination of the Son to the Father. Giles's own discussion, by its attenuated quotation of Augustine, turns out to be the treatment of Augustine that in fact denies what Augustine affirms."

Daniel Akin, "The Power of a Consecrated Life Lived Out in the Ministry of Miss Lottie Moon (Romans 12:1)"

"Lottie Moon wrote, ‘I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to the women of China.' The year of her death, 2358 persons were baptized in her field of service, nearly doubling the Baptist population in the area. . . . Twenty years following her death, Chinese women in remote villages would ask, ‘When will the heavenly Book Visitor come again?' Their testimony about her was, ‘How she loved us.'"

View the table of contents for the Fall issue, or subscribe today (student rate available). The Spring 2008 issue of JBMW is now available online in its entirety.