Under the leadership of leaders like Randy Stinson, Bruce Ware, and J. Later in the 1990s CBMW engaged several issues related to “gender neutral” Bible translation, contending for the importance of fidelity to the original text.ĬBMW has played a formative role in helping numerous denominations and organizations promote gospel-driven gender roles, including the Southern Baptist Convention and the Presbyterian Church of America. It signaled that complementarianism rested upon extensive scholarship and featured an impressive array of essays on exegetical, theological, and applicatory topics. Now known as RBMW (or, among younger complementarians, the “blue book”), the text was named “Book of the Year” by Christianity Today in 1992.
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During this period, Grudem and Piper worked on assembling and editing essays for a project released by Crossway in 1991 entitled Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism. It was clear that CBMW represented the concerns of a large, and to that point relatively quiet, constituency. The organization built steam for several years, running an ad in Christianity Today that drew a huge response. The group then voted to incorporate as the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. The draft was adopted in meeting and called the Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. The group next met at the Sheraton Ferncroft Resort in Danvers, Massachusetts, on December 2-3, 1987, before the 1987 meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. Under Piper’s leadership, the group drafted a statement outlining what would become the definitive theological articulation of “complementarianism,” the biblically derived view that men and women are complementary, possessing equal dignity and worth as the image of God, and called to different roles that each glorify him. These figures were concerned by the spread of unbiblical teaching.
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Lewis Johnson, James Borland, Susan Foh, and Ken Sarles. CBMW has been in operation since 1987, when a meeting in Dallas, Texas, brought together a number of evangelical leaders and scholars, including John Piper, Wayne Grudem, Wayne House, S.