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Authority, Scripture, and Women in the Church
By: Esther D. Reed | September 5, 2004
Authority, Scripture, and Women in the Church
The Doctrine of the Trinity and Subordination
By: Kevin Giles | July 31, 2004
No longer is it thought that the Trinity is an obtuse, secondary, and impractical dogma. Today theologians are generally agreed that this doctrine is foundational to the Christian faith because it articulates what is most distinctive in the biblical revelation of God—he is triune.
Book Review: Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and Pauline Communities
By: Kevin Giles | June 30, 2004
Based on my reading, Winter in each instance seems to interpret key texts in dispute in a way completely in sympathy with the hierarchical-complementarian agenda. If his exegesis were compelling we would need to listen, but it is not.
A Christian Understanding of Submission: A Nonhierarchical-Complementarian Viewpoint
By: Alan F. Johnson | October 31, 2003
The introduction of the word “submission” into a Christian conversation about adult human relations immediately strikes different responses. For some Christians, submission is a happy word describing the proper biblical relation of a wife to her husband or of a woman, whether married or single, to the males in the church congregation.
Hermeneutics in Pink and Blue: An open letter to a pastor
By: Christiane Carlson-Theis | October 31, 2002
For many of us, our unease with the traditional position has nothing to do with being swayed by modern liberation movements; rather, our unease is a response to the weaknesses within the traditional position itself. In the spirit of 2 Timothy 2:15, I hope the critical comments I offer can become part of a conversation to [...]
Q&A: Does a Woman Need a Male Covering Over Her Ministry?
By: Alvera Mickelsen | December 6, 2001
This is a question frequently asked by some Christians who belong to some branches of Pentecostalism. The teaching about “male covering” for women is rarely found outside of these groups and has never been accepted by the vast majority of evangelical Christians.
New Testament Limits of Authority and Hierarchical Power
By: Del Birkey | July 31, 2001
There are six evident restrictions on authority that Christ the Head authorized and that apostolic missionaries set in motion in the New Testament house churches. These biblical boundaries of authority (exousia) unveil the extent to which complementarians practice masculine domination among God’s people.
The Intolerable Goal of Role Theology
By: Del Birkey | April 30, 2001
In recent decades, traditionalists have dug for deeper roots in search of a viable biblical theology on which to support their superstructure of hierarchy. What has emerged instead in contemporary complementarianism is a sociocultural and extrabiblical “theology of roles.” It is this to which we will direct our critique.
Gender Authority
By: Del Birkey | January 31, 2001
Part 1 of a 3-part series, presented here, focuses on the radical redefinition of authority Jesus taught and set in motion for his church; it considers the complementarians’ circuitous idea of gender authority.
Can you Believe in Inerrancy and Equality?
By: Dan Gentry Kent | January 31, 2001
Inerrancy is a doctrinal position, a conviction regarding the nature of the Bible. A belief in the equality of male and female, on the other hand, is a matter of the interpretation of the Bible, hermeneutics: “The place of women in the Bible is an interpretive, hermeneutical question. It is not an inerrancy question.”