Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Fully alive : a Biblical vision of gender that frees men and women to live beyond stereotypes / Dr. Larry Crabb.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Books, (c)2013.Description: 222 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801015304
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT708 .F855 2013
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Sex and gender -- Words have meaning -- In the beginning: Gender in the Garden of Eden -- What makes a woman feminine? -- Submission: A dirty word? -- What submission really means -- What makes a man masculine? -- Relational masculinity --
We have nothing to fear except . . . -- The core terror of a woman: An invitation with no response -- What fear can do: Four personas that hide women -- The core terror of a man: Weightlessness -- Recognizing the terror in a man -- What fear can do: A glimpse into three weightless men -- A fourth man: Males who are becoming masculine --
Relational sin: Our tongue - The restless assassin -- There is a center: Our mistake is indifference to its existence -- Search for your center -- Preparing to live fully alive: Catch the vision and count the cost --
The journey begins: From female to feminine, from male to masculine -- Let the slow race begin -- From conception to conversion: Shaped foolishness -- New life -- Life emerges: When the road narrows -- Your ears shall hear -- Walking the narrow road: The opportunity of defeat -- Becoming masculine men and feminine women --
Subject: "Gender roles have been the subject of much debate and confusion over the last several decades. What is expected of a man? What is expected of a woman? But the Bible is clear - God created men and women to be unique, and He did so for a purpose. In Fully Alive, author and psychologist Dr. Larry Crabb offers a life-changing, biblically dependent understanding of gender uniqueness. He shows you how to appreciate and exhibit your God-given femininity or masculinity to reveal God's loving character to a world that is desperately in need of understanding." Front book flap
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BT708.C733.F855 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923002106355

Includes bibliographical references.

PART I. SEARCHING FOR OUR GENDERED CENTER: WHERE DIVINE LIFE LIVES -- Sex and gender -- Words have meaning -- In the beginning: Gender in the Garden of Eden -- What makes a woman feminine? -- Submission: A dirty word? -- What submission really means -- What makes a man masculine? -- Relational masculinity --

PART II. DISCOVERING OUR CORE TERROR: THE GENDER-RELATED FEAR THAT IMMOBILIZES -- We have nothing to fear except . . . -- The core terror of a woman: An invitation with no response -- What fear can do: Four personas that hide women -- The core terror of a man: Weightlessness -- Recognizing the terror in a man -- What fear can do: A glimpse into three weightless men -- A fourth man: Males who are becoming masculine --

PART III. IDENTIFYING OUR RELATIONAL SIN: THE OPPORTUNITY FOR LIFE-RELEASING BROKENNESS -- Relational sin: Our tongue - The restless assassin -- There is a center: Our mistake is indifference to its existence -- Search for your center -- Preparing to live fully alive: Catch the vision and count the cost --

PART IV. BECOMING FULLY ALIVE: tHE SLOWLY TRANSFORMING PROCESS -- The journey begins: From female to feminine, from male to masculine -- Let the slow race begin -- From conception to conversion: Shaped foolishness -- New life -- Life emerges: When the road narrows -- Your ears shall hear -- Walking the narrow road: The opportunity of defeat -- Becoming masculine men and feminine women --

EPILOGUE: A FINAL WORD TO WOMEN AND MEN.

"Gender roles have been the subject of much debate and confusion over the last several decades. What is expected of a man? What is expected of a woman? But the Bible is clear - God created men and women to be unique, and He did so for a purpose. In Fully Alive, author and psychologist Dr. Larry Crabb offers a life-changing, biblically dependent understanding of gender uniqueness. He shows you how to appreciate and exhibit your God-given femininity or masculinity to reveal God's loving character to a world that is desperately in need of understanding." Front book flap

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.