With great thanks to Editor Denny Burk and Associate Editor, Christopher W. Cowan, we are glad to announce the arrival of the Spring 2009 issue of the Journal on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (JBMW).
Dr. Denny Burk offers a pointed editorial on the inevitable clash of worldviews when biblical complimentarianism collides with egalitarianism in both its religious and secular forms.
Dr. Wayne Grudem, one of the founders of CBMW, supplies a helpful perspective—one that few others could provide—on the history of the controversy over God's design for the two sexes in his article "Personal Reflections on the History of CBMW and the State of the Gender Debate."
You'll also find a thorough-going response by philosopher Stephen B. Cowan to an idea espoused by many egalitarian scholars that the three persons of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit cannot be different in role if they are one in essence. First offered at the 2008 Evangelical Theological Society gathering in Providence, Rhode Island, his paper is entitled "The Metaphysics of Subordination: A Response to Rebecca Merrill Groothuis."
Dr. Tom Schreiner serves the reader well with his perceptive book review "Who's Explaining Away Blue Parakeets? A Review of Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008."
Finally, Associate Editor Christopher W. Cowan examines an attempt to feminize the vocabulary we use to refer to God in "Rob Bell's "Feminine Images" for God: A Review of Rob Bell, NOOMA: "She." Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008."
All of the articles will be available September 1. If you would like to subscribe to JBMW you may do so here.
The gender debate is far from over, and likely will only intensify and diversify. We trust this issue of JBMW will contribute clarity and cogency to an often visceral debate.