Taken from http://www.familylife.com/ by author Dennis Rainey Copyright 2003. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

In December, 1987, the newly-formed Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood met in Danvers, Massachusetts, to compose the Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Prior to the listing of the actual affirmations that comprise the Danvers Statement, we have included a section detailing contemporary developments that serve as the rationale for these affirmations. We...

Taken from the Shepherd Press Catalog, Volume 8, http://www.shepherdpress.com/

Taken from the Shepherd Press Catalog, Volume 8, http://www.shepherdpress.com/

[Originally published in Language and Life: Essays in Memory of Kenneth L. Pike, ed. Mary Ruth Wise, Thomas N. Headland, Ruth M. Brend (Dallas, TX: SIL International and The University of Texas at Arlington, 2003), 371-380. Copyright held by the author.]1