Women Creation & the Fall

by Mary A. Kassian

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891075526
• ISBN13: 9780891075523
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Crossway Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The best concise treatment of 'biblical' feminism around

There isn't a better book around which lays the Scriptural foundations for the roles of men and women. Mrs Kassian firmly upholds biblical authority, and starts right at the beginning -- the creation of Adam and Even in Genesis. That is, both men and women were created in God's image, but both sinned and were both cursed.Kassian presents the Scriptural framework for God's order in the home and the church: benevolent male headship and female submission. As Ephesians 5:24-25 says: 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.But Kassian also warns against shortcomings by both sexes, e.g. male despotism and female rebellion.Finally, she applies relentless logic and sound analysis of the scriptures to refute so-called 'biblical' feminism. I see this aberration in the same way as creation compromises (e.g. gap theory, day-age, theistic evolution): trying to interpret the infallible Word of God by the fallible theories of sinful human beings.Be sure to get her subsequent book _The Feminist Gospel : The Movement to Unite Feminism With the Church_ This shows, among other things, how many of the first generation of 'biblical' feminists started by 'reinterpreting' God's word to fit fashionable feminist theory. Later, they slid further down the slippery slope into complete apostasy.For a very thorough and detailed refutation of 'biblical' feminism, I recommend _Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood_ by Piper and Grudem.

Great concise resource on men/women in ministry/home issues

Mary Kassian has provided Christians with a wonderfully clear and concise tool for understanding what the Bible teaches about women & men in relationship in society, home, and Church. Feminists will not like her conclusions, but her handling of Scripture and her logic are hard to refute. The cowardice and oppressive failures of men is brought out along with the responsibility of men to love their wives as Christ loved the Church. For those who believe that God's Word is not confused on this issue, and yet do not want a dictatorial model of marriage or church life, this book is a must!