{"product_id":"gender-grace-love-work-parenting-in-a-changing-world-9780830812974","title":"Gender \u0026 Grace: Love, Work Parenting in a Changing World","description":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWinner of a 1991 Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award (1st place; contemporary issues).\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow are men and women different?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does being a male or a female affect us at work? What are the roles of husband and wife in marriage and parenting? What does Christianity have to do with any of these things?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSexual identity lies at the core of the crucial questions that everyone asks of life. Yet today those questions are harder and harder to answer. Traditions about the \"real man\" and the \"woman's place\" have been challenged. Scientists debate what nature actually dictates for male and female. And theologians engage in heated controversy over what the Bible really says about female submission and male headship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this sane yet provocative book, an informed social scientist and committed Christian thinker braves a jungle of confusion to offer unusual insight on the part genes, culture and faith play in making us the men and women we are -- and ought to become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Stewart Van Leeuwen is professor of psychology and philosophy at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. She taught at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Michigan) for many years, and she has been a senior editor of \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today.\u003c\/i\u003e Currently she is a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eBooks Culture.\u003c\/i\u003e Van Leeuwen has written, cowritten, and contributed to several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Psychology of Intergroup Relations\u003c\/i\u003e (with L. Kidder, McGraw-Hill, 1975), \u003ci\u003eThe Person in Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e (Eerdmans, 1985), \u003ci\u003eAfter Eden\u003c\/i\u003e (one of several contributors, Eerdmans, 1993), \u003ci\u003eReligion, Feminism the Family\u003c\/i\u003e (co-editor, Westminster John Knox, 1996), \u003ci\u003eThe Family Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e (co-editor, Westminster John Knox, 1998) and \u003ci\u003eWomen and the Future of the Family\u003c\/i\u003e (with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Mardi Keyes and Stanley Grenz, Baker, 2000).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"IVP Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492170436882,"sku":"9780830812974","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_19d5730c-faee-461f-b262-799474987cfb.jpg?v=1730574738","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gender-grace-love-work-parenting-in-a-changing-world-9780830812974","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}