Journal: Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Volume: JBMW 06:1 (Spring 2001)
Article: Annotated Bibliography for Gender Related Articles in 2000
Author: Rob Lister

JBMW 6:1 (Spring 2001) p. 35

Annotated Bibliography for Gender Related Articles in 2000

Compiled and Annotated by

Rob Lister

Managing Editor, Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Louisville, Kentucky

A word of explanation is in order, as JBMW readers will find this portion of the journal unfamiliar to them. As another means of helping the church deal biblically with gender issues, we at JBMW would like to help keep our readership abreast of the range of publications pertaining to gender issues. This new section in the journal represents our effort to do just that. In the spring edition of every journal, JBMW will attempt to provide a near comprehensive bibliography with annotations for all the gender-related journal articles published in the previous year. Then, in the fall edition, JBMW will attempt to do the same thing with the gender-related books of the previous year.

In so doing, we believe that our readers will quickly recognize from the sheer quantity of the publications the need to stand biblically firm on the matter of gender issues facing the contemporary church. To that end, JBMW has attempted to provide an appropriate classification and annotation of each of these articles. The annotations focus on reporting the content of the respective article, but where appropriate, they also interact with the articles in an effort to expose problematic thinking. In that way, we hope to help our readership remain on top of what is currently being said as well as how it is said.

A brief word about the classification system. The reader will notice that the articles are classified according to their stance on gender issues. Complementarian, Egalitarian, Non-Evangelical, and Undeclared have all been assigned as headings. The Complementarian heading should be self-evident to our readers. By Egalitarian, we intend to classify evangelicals who do not see a place in Scripture for male headship in the church or home. Under the Non-Evangelical heading, we have classified articles that are strictly secular in vantage point (e.g. a psychological or sociological article) as well as articles that broach the subject of biblical gender issues from a non-evangelical point of view. In some cases this latter group of articles represents radical feminists whose teaching is undeniably unbiblical and, since their beliefs show that they have no claim to anything that is distinctively evangelical, we felt it would be a misrepresentation to classify them alongside evangelical feminists. Finally, under the Undeclared heading, we have listed those articles that do not give sufficient indication of their stance for us to classify them more specifically.

A final not...