Complementarity without hierarchies
Vs.
Complementarity with hierarchies
Brian Morris Examines Primary Sources:
From Paul Jewett’s pioneering book in 1975:
“Although it is almost unheard-of to ask a woman to write the Foreword to a theological treatise, for fear of rendering suspect the seriousness and profundity of the work”
It’s a very joyful & hopeful take by Virginia Mollenkott
Virginia Mollonkott, 1975:
“Having been brought up in an environment which never failed to impress upon me my second-class citizenship in the family of God, having been taught that my training in literary exegesis was useless to the church because women must keep silent.”
Virginia Mollenkott, 1975:
“Professor Jewett demonstrates beyond the shadow of a doubt that Jesus’ behavior toward women was revolutionary, that he deliberately and radically broke with the patriarchal and male supremacist attitudes of Hebrew culture…”
From this book. More from it here.
Jewett: “Because God made Man male and female, in the natural realm men are fathers and brothers, while women are mothers and sisters. So it must be in the spiritual realm. And when it is, then, and only then, will the church be truly the family of God.”
🔥!
Ummmmm…
Jewett: “The entire case for sexual hierarchy becomes a non sequitur which may be summarized as follows: (a) the woman is in no way inferior to the man, (b) yet she is different from him, (c) therefore she is subordinate to him. This argument is not compelling.”
Did you see tweet 8 and 9? Read those again. Back to Grudem:
“The editors of DBE, however, do not want us to use the word ‘comp’ to identify our position. They say, ‘This term must be challenged because egals also believe in gender comp yet complementarity without hierarchy.”
Grudem:
“It will only bring confusion to try to apply
‘complementarian’ to the egalitarian position at this point.”
“(note the subtitle, Complementarity without Hierarchy). This can only result in confusing the debate.”
THIS IS WHAT CBMW IS DOING! Adding confusion! 😡
Back to Piper. What are they refuting?
“avoid the opposite mistakes that come from the feminist blurring of God-given sexual distinctions.”
Is that what Jewett was doing?
So what was Piper thinking that Jewett was minimizing? The manhood of:
Choosing the restaurant?
Paying the bill?
Driving the car?
Read the GREEN, PLEASE.
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The Gospel Coalition: “A woman’s absence is the first thing declared ‘not good’ in creation. … If God so values women that he includes them as a consistent and essential part of his mission, how can we feel and act any different?” (June, 2018)Also The Gospel Coalition:Hierarchy is ego-consciousness. If God is a hierarchical being who set up a hierarchical reality, then the reality we live into and the ultimate reality we reflect is an ego trip.That’s why abuse is so prevalent in theologies of hierarchy. What else would we expect? It’s also why the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood promotes hierarchy within the Trinity and frames God’s work in creation as sovereignty over those below. It justifies their hierarchy over women because it’s rooted in their theology about the nature and work of God.
“Entire schools and thousands of ministries are based on the framing of reality and defining of love as submission to absolute male power. And it’s all fueled by conservative evangelical complementarian theology.Simple adjustments will not suffice. MacArthur himself says it “absolutely pervades everything.” Let’s take him at his word. His entire tower needs to be deconstructed.” Source: what ails them?
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| “Abuse is about power and control over the victim. Abuse can present in many forms, some of which are more difficult to recognize than others.” BTR.org |
Disclaimer here. I’ve witnessed men being abusive to other men. I’ve seen women being abusive to other women. Women can be abusive to men too. More commonly we see men being abusive to women. When we share authority and submission we can recover from these things.
Sarah Batdorf 
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