husband), he is neither male nor female. To be faithful to God’s revelation, we should speak of God only in the masculine terms he has given us, but to call God “Father” is not the same as saying God is a man (though he became a man in the incarnation). Maleness, therefore, is not a higher order of being than femaleness. Both men and women were made to represent God in the world. Second, man has both singularity and plurality.1 Humanity can be named singularly as adam (“man” not “woman”), but humanity