Grudem served on the committee overseeing the English Standard Version translation, and in 1999 he was the president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. He is the author of Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, which, in summary, advocates a Calvinistic soteriology, the verbal plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible, the body-soul dichotomy in the nature of man, elder-oriented baptist congregationalism, a third-wave charismatic view of spiritual gifts, the complementarian view of gender equality, a post-tribulation premillennialist view of the end times, and leans strongly towards an old earth (long days of creation) view of the creation account.