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The story of Brian Wood, Sportsman, Musician, Teacher, Christian,
Family Man. Brian was a 'man's man', remembered for his exceptional
abilities in sport, mountaineering and music, focused and expressed
in the only profession where his abilities and passion could have
the maximum benefit and impact on young lives - teaching in
boarding schools. Brian's life touched and inspired countless
lives. His own source of inspiration was not primarily the
mountaineering and sporting heroes he so admired, nor the music of
Handel or Bach, but the person of Jesus Christ whose life and
example he tried to follow in humble service. That is what I find
so inspiring about Brian Wood. John Barclay, Principal, Hebron
School, India
Where did the old social barriers break down at the coming of
Christianity? In homes. Where did practice join theology to break
down the division between rich and poor or Jew and Greek, so that
they ate together? In the hospitality of house church hosts and
hostesses. What happened to the barrier between slave and free?
Gone when they prayed together. The intense reserve between men and
women? Dissolved as hosts and hostesses served the friends who
entered their door. Paul saw this, admired and praised the house
church leaders, and planned on homes to grow the gospel.
Description: Questions related to the issue of gender remain
insufficiently acknowledged and explored in contemporary
theological literature. These issues form the basis of significant
unresolved tensions among evangelicals, as evidenced in debates
over the nature of the Trinity, Bible translation, church practice,
choice of language, mission leadership, decision-making in homes,
and parenting, to name but a few examples. The essays in this
volume are not meant to provide a monolithic evangelical theology
of gender, but rather to provide evangelical perspectives
surrounding the topic of gender. To further this aim, each of the
main essays is followed by a formal response with an attempt at a
concise and lucid perspective on the essay and pointers to further
areas for investigation. Some contributors are complementarian
while others are egalitarian, although who is what is left to the
discerning reader. Regardless of one's position on the issue, all
will benefit from the contributors' commitment to the further
exploration of gender issues from the perspective of a broadly
conceive evangelicalism. Endorsements: "The book engenders a deep
yearning to read further such dialogical volumes from Trinitarian
scholars, Biblical scholars, and others. It overall avoids
caricatures of much polemical confrontation seeking true dialogue
between human persons both male and female. The prologue
establishes a theological foundation for the discussion to continue
between persons in relationship with each other as imaging
something of who the Creator is. I hope the dialogue will continue
in further volumes particularly in the context of New Zealand and
Australia." --Mary Fisher Pastor, Sydney Chinese Alliance Church
About the Contributor(s): Myk Habets is Director of the R.J.
Thompson Centre for Theological Studies, Carey Baptist College, New
Zealand. He is the author of Theosis in the Theology of Thomas
Torrance (2009), and The Anointed Son (2010). Beulah Wood makes her
base at South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies in
Bangalore, India, and in Auckland, NZ. A lecturer in preaching,
communication, and a biblical view of family and gender, she is
also an editor, and author or co-author of over thirty books and
booklets, including Families in the Plan of God: A Theology for
South Asia (2010).
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