Egalitarian/Complementarian Bibliography

We thought our readers might find it helpful to have a bibliography listing most or all of the influential books on this subject from both the egalitarian side and the complementarian side. Note: unless these books are listed in our order form on page 15, we do not stock or distribute these books. You will have to obtain them from your own library or book dealer. [If we have omitted important books written by evangelicals on this issue, please let us know! The works by non-evangelicals number several hundreds, and are surveyed in the 1992 books by Cottrell and Kassian below.]

From an evangelical feminist (egalitarian) position

1974 Letha Scanzoni & Nancy Hardesty, All We're Meant to Be (Word)

1975 Paul Jewett, Man as Male and Female (Eerdmans)

1976 Richard & Joyce Boldrey, Chauvinist or Feminist? Paul's View of Women (Baker)

1977 Patricia Gundry, Woman, Be Free! (Zondervan)

1977 Virginia Mollenkott, Women, Men, and the Bible (Abingdon)

1979 Berkeley & Alvera Mickelsen, "Does Male Dominance Tarnish Our Translations?", Christianity Today, Oct. 5, 1979, pp. 23-29. Also: "The ‘Head' of the Epistles," CT, Feb. 20, 1981, 20-23. [widely influential articles]

1982 E. Margaret Howe, Women and Church Leadership (Zondervan)

1983 Mary J. Evans, Woman in the Bible (IVP)

1984 Gordon Fee, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, GNC (Harper)

1985 Gilbert Bilezikian, Beyond Sex Roles (Baker)

1985 Aida Spencer, Beyond the Curse (Thomas Nelson)

1986 Janette Hassey, No Time for Silence (Zondervan)

1986 Alvera Mickelsen, ed., Women, Authority and the Bible (IVP)

1987 Ruth Tucker & Walter Liefeld, Daughters of the Church (Zondervan)

1987 Gretchen Gaebelein Hull, Equal to Serve (Revell)

1987 Gordon Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, NIC (Eerdmans)

1988 Faith Martin, Call Me Blessed (Eerdmans)

1989 Bonnidell & Robert Clouse, eds., Women in Ministry: Four Views (IVP) [listed in this category because of the clear editorial sympathies of the editors]

1990 Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Gender and Grace (IVP)

1992 Richard & Catherine Kroeger, I Suffer Not a Woman (Baker)

1992 Craig S. Keener, Paul, Women, & Wives (Hendrickson)

1992 Ruth Tucker, Women in the Maze (IVP)

1994 Rebecca Groothuis, Women Caught in the Conflict (Baker)

1996 (forthcoming) Stanley Grenz, Women in the Church (IVP)

From a complementarian position

1977 George W. Knight III, The NT Teaching on the Role Relationship of Men and Women (Baker)

1980 Susan Foh, Women and the Word of God (Presbyterian & Reformed)

1980 Stephen B. Clark, Man and Woman in Christ (Servant)

1981 James Hurley, Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective (Zondervan)

1981 Douglas J. Moo & Philip Payne, interchange in Trinity Journal, 1981 (reprinted, with additional material, by the Evangelical Free Church: Moo is complementarian, while Payne is egalitarian).

1984 Dee Jepsen, Women: Beyond Equal Rights (Word)

1985 George W. Knight III, The Role Relation of Men and Women (Moody). This is a revision of the author's 1977 book; it also includes a new appendix by W. Grudem, "Does kephale (‘head') Mean ‘Source' or ‘Authority Over' in Greek Literature? A Survey of 2,336 Examples." [also in Trinity Journal 6 NS (1985), 38-59].

1987 Samuele Bacchiocchi, Women in the Church (Biblical Perspectives)

1987 Weldon Hardenbrook, Missing from Action: Vanishing Manhood in America (Thomas Nelson)

1989 F. LaGard Smith, Men of Strength for Women of God (Harvest House)

1990 Wayne House, The Role of Women in Ministry Today (Thomas Nelson) [see also 1995]

1990 Mary Kassian, Women, Creation, and the Fall (Crossway)

1991 Larry Crabb, Men and Women: Enjoying the Difference (Zondervan)

1991 R. Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man (Crossway)

1991 Robert Lewis & William Hendricks, Rocking the Roles (Navpress)

1991 Werner Neuer, Man and Woman in Christian Perspective, trans. by Gordon Wenham (Crossway)

1991 John Piper & Wayne Grudem, eds., Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Crossway)

1992 Jack Cottrell, Feminism and the Bible (College Press, Joplin, Mo.)

1992 Mary Kassian, The Feminist Gospel (Crossway)

1992 George W. Knight, III, The Pastoral Epistles, NIGTC (Eerdmans)

1993 Stu Weber, Tender Warrior, (Multnomah)

1994 Michael Harper, Equal and Different (London: Hodder & Stoughton)

1995 The Woman's Study Bible, edited by Dorothy Patterson and Rhonda Kelley (Thomas Nelson)

1995 Wayne House, The Role of Women in Ministry Today (Baker) Revised and updated edition

1995 (forthcoming) Thomas Schreiner, H. Scott Baldwin, and Andreas Köstenberger, Women and the Church: A Fresh Look at 1 Timothy 2 [tentative title] (Baker)