Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2008 | 207 Comments »
The CBMW gender blog claims that these thinkers taught a model of the Trinity that includes an eternally subordinated Son:
Hilary of Poitiers (c. 291-371), who was widely known as the Athanasius of the Western tradition. His work on the Trinity, De Trinitate, clearly expresses order and ranking in the Godhead.
Athanasius (c. 296-373) argued [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last year Jeff Borcherding wrote a series of blog posts on gender roles. Jeff is seeking truth and has not made up his mind about some of the issues concerning gender roles. He seems to have an open mind as he looks at the claims of complementarians and egalitarians on how gender roles should be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Mike Aubrey asks some important questions for each of us in the gender debate or any debate for that matter. He concludes:
Often also, the other side does not feel as if you’ve been at all fair to them in understanding and also representing and criticizing their perspective. Many times people on both sides feel as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2008 | 37 Comments »
This may seem an odd title for a blog post, and for anyone who didn’t grow up reading stories about knights in shining armor, it may take some explaining. “Tilting” is another term for jousting, and the “lists” were the roped off lanes through which the knights would charge at each other. What’s this got [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2008 | 49 Comments »
Of Jonathan’s love, David said it was better than “the love of women.”
Was that because the intimacy [non-sexual] between David and Jonathan was shared between equals? (The love of women cannot be the love of an equal in a patriarchal society where one has a harem of wives, something complementarians and egalitarians would [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Tonight I discovered a webpage with sample wedding vows. These vows are on the bible.org website, on which there are many resources produced by professors at and students of Dallas Theological Seminary.
Notice how many of the vows include that the woman will “obey” her husband. I was surprised that the word “submit” was not used, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Periodically, the question comes up about what do complementarians and egalitarians agree upon. One point that has become clear in posts and comments on this blog is that both sides agree that abuse of a spouse within marriage is absolutely wrong. Complementarians make clear that abuse of a wife is completely wrong and does not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2008 | 25 Comments »
In response to my last post, Wayne asked how my views are different from the idea of “mutual submission.” I would say that depends on what you mean by mutual submission. I am perfectly comfortable using the term mutual submission to describe my marriage, but that term means different things to different people.
In the “Myth [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2008 | 32 Comments »
I’m a complementarian, and after I divulge the following secret, I’m likely to be seen by some as one of the most dangerous kinds: the kind that doesn’t believe in the use of birth control. Now, with that one statement I probably just lost all of the egalitarian readers of this blog and ninety-nine percent [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Many thanks to commenter lin for posting a url in the combox to this paper by Russell Moore from Southern Baptist Theological titled “After Patriarchy, What? Why Egalitarians are Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate.” Click the link to read the entire paper.
To begin, Moore discusses a book in which its author points out that conservative [...]
