Mart De Haan, who some of you may have heard on radio or tv, is thinking about men, women, and the Bible. Coming from neither complementarian or egalitarian position (which he mentions in another great post mulling over Women in High Places, as well as the recent, What About Women Elders?), he does a fantastic job of explaining how one can draw up a thoroughly Biblical case for not believing that men are supposed to be in charge of women—or, then again, how they perhaps are (but if so, not in a “power over” sense). In short, he muses about many of the same things that have filled the comment boxes here at Complegalitarian, from both complementarians and egalitarians. Good stuff!
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Thanks, Molly, for drawing our attention to this blogger.
I am very sympathetic to the approach he takes in the first post you link to. His advice is not ideological and can be accepted, I believe, by comps, egals, and people in the middle without difficulty. It is very similar to the advice proffered by Jolly Blogger, a comp, which you shared with us and linked to earlier.
I would love to see these emphases, which are also found in authors like Gary Thomas, become part of a consensus shared by comps, egals, and people in the middle alike.
I left a comment on Mart’s blog post, including a link to this blog. Mart is a special guy, thoughtful, gracious, loving, willing to look at more than one side of an issue. I sometimes chatted with him since we attended the same Bible school and it was already clear at that time that he was wise and had a loving heart.
I suspect that Mart grew up with comp teaching at home and, of course, at Bible school, as well as under his grandfather’s and father’s teaching on RBC.
I’m glad to see that he is willing to take some guff from one or both sides by understanding and respecting the interpretational arguments from both sides. Above all, love should prevail, is what I hear him saying. And I agree. That doesn’t mean compromising our core beliefs or even less core beliefs. But I think it means we can hear each other without condemning each other.
If nothing else, I hope that we can practice those things here at Complegalitarian.
Oh, I like that post! (The first one linked.) What a tremendous summary, and message! Thanks for alerting us!
Thanks, guys. I found out about it from our own much loved commenter, charis.
It is important to ask the questions he is asking.
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