The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood was organized in 1987.CBMW web site: about us , accessed 13 September 2011.Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability web site: Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood , accessed 13 September 2011. At a 1986 meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), Wayne Grudem gave a speech on "Manhood and Womanhood in Biblical and Theological Perspectives" in which he invited delegates to join "a new organization dedicated to upholding both equality and differences between men and women in marriage and the church."Wayne Grudem, "Personal Reflections on the History of CBMW and the State of the Gender Debate," JBMW, Vol. 14 No. 1. This was followed by a meeting in Dallas with Grudem, John Piper, Wayne House, and others. A subsequent meeting was held in Danvers, Massachusetts; at this meeting, the Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood was finalized.Roger E. Olson (2004), The Westminster Handbook to Evangelical Theology, Westminster John Knox Press, p. 312. A full-page advertisement containing the full Danvers Statement was published in Christianity Today in January 1989.Daniel T. Rodgers (2011), Age of Fracture, Harvard University Press, p. 312.
