title: Leadership is Male: What Does the Bible Say?
author:  David Pawson 
description: What a relief to find a bold book with a bold title on a subject most men won t touch with a barge pole! I don t know Mr. Pawson, but surely he is a bold man. He faced the cost of putting his obsolete and offensive (his own words) viewpoint into print and went ahead and did it anyway with scholarly care, with grace and courtesy. I hope and pray that people will read and heed what he has written. The issue of so-called equality of men and women touches the very foundation of Christian faith, for it goes deep into the nature of God and the great mystery of which the much-maligned apostle Paul writes in his letter to the Ephesians. For years I have watched with increasing dismay the destruction the feminist movement has wrought in the world, in the church, in Christian homes and marriages, and in personalities. I have studied the tortuous arguments of those who would persuade us that Galatians 3:28 cancels everything the author says elsewhere in his epistles about the vital distinctions between men and women. I have listened to the endless discussions of Paul s rabbinical prejudice and cultural insularity. I have delved into treatises on the meaning of the Greek word hypotasso, ( to arrange under , to be under obedience , to put under , to subdue unto , to subject to , to be in subjection to , to submit self unto ), and I have on a few occasions been asked (as a traditionalist , whatever that means) to debate those who would rewrite history, literature, psychology and the Bible itself to make them palatable to the woman of the late twentieth century. I have done practically everything but jump up and down and scream about it. Here is a simple, sane, serious treatment of the subject by a man who loves God, respects women, and takes the inspiration of Scripture and the integrity of the apostles for granted. He deals with all the difficult texts. He tells us that his subject is not a clerical issue, nor is it hierarchical, situational, historical, or experimental; it is biblical. With that I agree wholeheartedly, but whether it can be settled, as he says, only by scrupulous exegesis I am not sure. I think it is even bigger, even deeper than that a theological mystery representing Christ and the church, bigger than exegesis, deeper than our deepest understanding. And such things will never be settled . Read this book. The exegesis points to the mystery. Mysteries are things revealed, not explained. Mysteries are always unsettling. --Elisabeth Elliot<br /><br />David Pawson wrote this book in 1988 as an antidote to the great harm that feminism was doing both in the church and society in general. Twenty years later we are now having to pick up the damaged pieces of so many lives and marriages. If the church had listened to this warning by David Pawson much of the damage could have been avoided. Unfortunately certain sections of the "popular" church abandoned the word of God even to the extent of embracing some alleged "modern translations" of the Bible. Today's Christians really do need to read and re-read this book. --David Hughes (UK)<br /><br />David Pawson wrote this book in 1988 as an antidote to the great harm that feminism was doing both in the church and society in general. Twenty years later we are now having to pick up the damaged pieces of so many lives and marriages. If the church had listened to this warning by David Pawson much of the damage could have been avoided. Unfortunately certain sections of the "popular" church abandoned the word of God even to the extent of embracing some alleged "modern translations" of the Bible. Today's Christians really do need to read and re-read this book. --David Hughes (UK)<br /><br />David Pawson wrote this book in 1988 as an antidote to the great harm that feminism was doing both in the church and society in general. Twenty years later we are now having to pick up the damaged pieces of so many lives and marriages. If the church had listened to this warning by David Pawson much of the damage could have been avoided. Unfortunately certain sections of the "popular" church abandoned the word of God even to the extent of embracing some alleged "modern translations" of the Bible. Today's Christians really do need to read and re-read this book. --David Hughes (UK)
zlib_text: LEADERSHIP IS MALE
  Pawson, J. David.
  Foreword by Elisabeth Elliot 
  Introduction
  1.
  As It Was in the Beginning ... 
  2.
  A Patriarchal People
  3.
  Behold the Man 
  4.
  Come Back, Peter 
  5.
  Come Back, Paul
  6.
  And Ever Shall Be? 
  Conclusion
  Appendix: The Summary Chart
  Foreword
  What a relief to find a bold book with a bold title on a subject most men won't
  touch with a barge pole! I don't know Mr. Pawson, but surely he is a bold man. He
  faced the cost of putting his "obsolete and offensive" (his own words) viewpoint into
  print and went ahead and did it anyway-with scholarly care, with grace and courtesy.
  I hope and pray that people will read and heed what he has written.
  The issue of so called equality of men and women touches the very foundation of
  Christian faith, for it goes deep into the nature of God and the great mystery of which
  the much-maligned apostle Paul writes in his letter to the Ephesians. For years I have
  watched with increasing dismay the destruction the feminist movement has wr