Create a 5 pages page paper that discusses book review of holding hands, holding hearts by richard d. and sharon l. phillips.

  

Create a 5 pages page paper that discusses book review of holding hands, holding hearts by richard d. and sharon l. phillips. From the essay it is clear that the most prominent message of the book is if “you are dating you are not just holding hands, you are holding hearts” calling for responsibility for other person’s feelings and emotions. Dating is viewed not as a worldly phenomenon but as a step toward marriage relationship. Thus the book is deemed as a practical help for those who want to have a blessed loving marriage which starts while dating. As the research stresses looking at the etymology of the separate words, the Phillips prove that meaning of a woman as a helper is distorted by people while its actual meaning is to emphasize strength of a woman, not her weakness and her being “as essential to Adam’s condition and to God’s purpose in the world” as well as “a position of dignity” granted by God. The Bible shows that origins of a woman from Adam’s rib is to emphasize her equal position with man. The widespread misunderstanding about the role of a man is in the belief that Adam’s lordship is a privi¬lege while in truth it is one of obligation – “the form of nurture and protection.” Both a man and woman are servants of God who are expressed through each other. Woman “elevates a man in true masculinity” making him a real man and at the same time a woman is not a woman without a man. Rejecting the role of a helper in life of man a woman loses “an important part of her identity and call¬ing.” This way the authors shape an important ground for dating relationship which is interdependence.