Loading…

enGendered: God’s Gift of Gender Difference in Relationship is unavailable, but you can change that!

enGendered celebrates the God-given distinctions between a man and a woman. It concludes that the more distinction is embraced, the closer a man and woman become. Thus gender, rightly understood, is a tool for intimacy. Written in a compassionate tone and winsome style, the volume speaks to Christians who want to know what the Bible says about gender differences and why. This theology of gender...

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Gen. 1:26–27) Is it one thing God created or two? Is it him or them? Why are the singulars and plurals mixed up in the same sentence? If even the Bible cannot talk about it without some inelegance, maybe clumsiness is inherent in the matter itself. Let me suggest that this is indeed the case. Clumsiness is endemic because of what gender really is: a fundamental element of bearing the image of
Pages 37–38
Buy this book at Logos.com