If you are familiar with CBMW and Piper/Grudem's old work, this is a short summary of the primary arguments that compilation deals with. Complementarians: You are better off using the original from 1991 if you wish to argue substantively for your perspective. This handbook's brevity does not do justice to the complexity of the topic. The author, attempting to make the content easily accessible, actually hurts his own argument with incomplete explanations, patronizing summaries (offering his view w/o showing evidence), and cultural assumptions. This booklet comes across as a pastoral "trust me" rather than a convincing argument for why his view should be accepted as accurate.

4.7 Stars

Probably the most brief and compelling treatment of Biblical complementarianism. Rather than immersing himself in the issues, DeYoung immerses himself in the Scriptures and presents to us a beautiful picture of what it means to be male and female. I appreciated that he not only presented the arguments from Scripture but from nature as well, and that cultural gender expectations are not to be ignored but tell us a great deal about Gods design.

In sum, DeYoung teaches us that the Bible instructs men to be strong and women to be beautiful, in all that the Bible (and not the world) means that to be. The restrictions for women holding biblical offices are not arbitrary, but are rooted in Gods good design of men and women. I highly recommend this book as the place to start to gain a visions of God’s good design for men and women! ( )