Search Resources

Use the search and filter below to search within the CBE Resource Library. For best results, please select a type.

Types

Sort By

Topics

Welcome to CBE’s Resources

You searched by:

Topic: Headship Theology

Found 228 resources that match your criteria.

Biblical Submission within Marriage

By: Rebecca Merrill Groothuis | February 14, 1999

What is biblical submission in marriage? What does it look like in an egalitarian marriage? Rebecca Merrill Groothuis responds to complementarian stances on submission in marriage with a look at Scripture.

Keep Reading

Cultural and Ideological Influences on the Role of Women

By: Frances Hiebert | July 31, 1998

Scripture, rightly understood of course, must always be the final court of appeal for Christians. But perhaps there are outside influences involved that have been overlooked by persons exploring the role of women. Some of these influences are explored here as having been significant factors in limiting women’s roles.

Keep Reading

From Scripture to Doctrine

By: Vic Pfitzner | July 19, 1998

We Lutherans all want to argue on the basis of God's revealed truth in the authoritative Scripture. Yet all of us come to this debate with our own personal history and agenda. My own history includes aversion to women in the public ministry as a result of experiences, first as a teenager, then as a [...]

Keep Reading

Promise Keepers and the Third Wall

By: Austin H. Stouffer | April 30, 1997

Promise Keepers, I beg of you: Seriously, biblically, prayerfully, consider the unprecedented impact your organization could have in tearing down this remaining wall: gender inequality.

Keep Reading

The Direction of Promise Keepers: A Response to Papers on "Religion, Sports and Manhood"

By: Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen | April 30, 1997

Much of my research is aimed at addressing a central question: Is Promise Keepers anti-feminist?

Keep Reading

Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine

By: Wayne Grudem | January 1, 1994

The Christian church has a long tradition of systematic theology, that is, of studying biblical teaching on centrally important doctrines such as the Word of God, redemption, and Jesus Christ. Wayne Grudem’s bestselling Systematic Theology has several distinctive features: A strong emphasis on the scriptural basis for each doctrine Clear writing, with technical terms kept to a [...]

Keep Reading

Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: Stressing the differences

By: W. Ward Gasque | January 30, 1990

Many contemporary evangelical Bible scholars and theologians, not to mention ordinary lay men and women, are convinced that attempts to use the Bible so as to exclude women from positions of leadership for which their Creator has made them and to which their Lord as called them – whether in society, home or church – is flawed.

Keep Reading

Book Review: Is God the Only Reliable Father?

By: Alvera Mickelsen | July 31, 1987

Tennis does not defend patriarchy. Neither does she defend efforts to rid God of "maleness." Rather, she presents God the Father as a model for earthly fathers.

Keep Reading