Read Part One HERE
In this post I will focus on the Book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Woman edited by John Piper and Wayne A. Grudem.
John Piper has said the following:
Mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for and protect women and mature femininity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men.
As for mature femininity, John Piper has used a list put together by a lady named Ronda Chervin, to describe what are the characteristics of mature femininity, as follows:
Responsive, compassionate, empathetic gentle, warm, tender, hospitable, receptive, diplomatic, considerate, polite, supportive, intuitive, wise, perceptive, sensitive, spiritual, sincere, vulnerable (emotionally open), obedient, trusting, graceful, sweet, expressive, charming, delicate, quiet, sensually receptive, faithful, pure.
My Comment:
We cannot find the terms masculinity and femininity in the Bible. We can only find the terms male and female in the Bible as we know from Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Therefore, the terms masculinity and femininity are cultural terms rather than biblical terms. Moreover, nowhere in the Bible can we find lists which describe what mature masculinity or mature femininity looks like. However, we do have a list of godly character or the fruit of the Spirit as found in Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Interestingly, the above list is to be developed in the lives of all believers, male and female, in order for each one of us to be more Christlike.
P.S. In my next post I will focus on Ronda Chervin, a Roman Catholic who has taught Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, the Franciscan University of Steubenville and Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, CT.
In this post I will focus on the Book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Woman edited by John Piper and Wayne A. Grudem.
John Piper has said the following:
Mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for and protect women and mature femininity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men.
As for mature femininity, John Piper has used a list put together by a lady named Ronda Chervin, to describe what are the characteristics of mature femininity, as follows:
Responsive, compassionate, empathetic gentle, warm, tender, hospitable, receptive, diplomatic, considerate, polite, supportive, intuitive, wise, perceptive, sensitive, spiritual, sincere, vulnerable (emotionally open), obedient, trusting, graceful, sweet, expressive, charming, delicate, quiet, sensually receptive, faithful, pure.
My Comment:
We cannot find the terms masculinity and femininity in the Bible. We can only find the terms male and female in the Bible as we know from Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Therefore, the terms masculinity and femininity are cultural terms rather than biblical terms. Moreover, nowhere in the Bible can we find lists which describe what mature masculinity or mature femininity looks like. However, we do have a list of godly character or the fruit of the Spirit as found in Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Interestingly, the above list is to be developed in the lives of all believers, male and female, in order for each one of us to be more Christlike.
P.S. In my next post I will focus on Ronda Chervin, a Roman Catholic who has taught Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, the Franciscan University of Steubenville and Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, CT.
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