Shorter Version of Grudem’s Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth

Wayne Grudem published a masterful, exhaustive (856-page) work on the male-female issue in 2004 under the title Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth. The book received this commendation from John Piper:

"After the Bible, I cannot imagine a more useful book for finding reliable help in understanding God's will for manhood and womanhood in the church and the home. The practical design of this book will help laypeople find answers without having to read 800 pages. But the rigor of scholarship, the amazing thoroughness, and the unparalleled clarity (which Wayne Grudem is justly famous for!) will make this book the standard complementarian manifesto for many years to come."

Well, now Grudem and Multnomah have created another way to get answers without having to read 800 pages. Multnomah has just republished a condensed version of Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth under the title Countering the Claims of Evangelical Feminism.

This new title (284 pages) includes some material not found in the larger, 2004 volume. For example, Grudem interacts with the recent egalitarian tome Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity without Hierarchy (IVP, 2004).

I'll also be writing a (shorter!) paper this summer responding to the IVP book, which I plan to post.