Sumner, Sarah,  1963- <br/><br/>
Men and women in the church :  building consensus on Christian leadership / 
Sarah Sumner. 
 - Downers Grove, Ill. :  InterVarsity Press,  c2003. 
 - 332 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>My story -- The purpose of this book -- The primacy of Scripture -- Exceptional women -- Is it better to be a man than a woman? -- Women and personhood -- Men and manhood -- Masculinity and femininity -- The authority of biblical metaphors -- Every passage in the Bible means something -- What's a "weaker vessel"? -- No pictures, please -- The husband is the head -- How does God head Christ? -- The mystery of headship -- Does Matthew 18 apply to wives? -- In the name of 1 Timothy 2 -- The order of creation -- It was Adam, and not Adam -- The significance of Adam being created first -- The fault line -- Thomists and Scotists -- Jesus is the logic -- Brothers and sisters in Christ -- Following in the steps of Jesus Christ. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0830823913 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002152086 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian leadership.<br/>Women in church work.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV652.1  / .S86 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>262/.14/082