egalitarianism

The Second Eve Undoes the Curse? — Addressing that Rachel Jankovic blog post, part 2

by Garrett O’Hara | July 9, 2020 | Theology | 0 Comments

In part '0' of this series, I went through a fairly dry history of how "second Eve" has been used from the time of the early church until now. In part 1, I dug into the Jankovic article on the question of second Eve and how her use of the term creates too much...

Take Up the Part of Second Eve? — Addressing that Rachel Jankovic Blog Post, part 1

by Garrett O’Hara | June 17, 2020 | Theology | 0 Comments

In part '0,' I addressed the history of the term "second Eve" with respect to Rachel Jankovic's post at the Desiring God blog titled "The Second Eve: How Christian Women Undo the Curse." My own research found a few previously claimed examples of second Eve: Mary...

Everything Egalitarianism and Then Some

by Garrett O’Hara | April 2, 2020 | Theology | 0 Comments

Do you miss the days not too long ago when the hot social media topics were egalitarianism and social justice instead of virtual church? No? Regardless, here's everything we've written on complementarianism and egalitarianism (so far) in one convenient list....

Is Male Headship a Gospel Issue?

Men, mean, and misogyny all start with the same letter. Obviously, guys are jerks and need to calm...

You Who: Why You Matter and How to Deal with It — Rachel Jankovic (book review)

Note (May 20th, 2020): My previous endorsement of You Who is under reconsideration after my having...

No More Holding Back — Kat Armstrong (book review, part 4)

In part 1 of this review, we saw Armstrong’s argument that Mary Magdalene is the “second Eve,”...

No More Holding Back — Kat Armstrong (book review, part 3)

Kat Armstrong's No More Holding Back: Emboldening Women to Move Past Barriers, See Their Worth, and Serve God Everywhere conveys a certain feminist, idealistic image of a Christian woman who seeks to live out all four aspects of the second greatest commandment. In...

No More Holding Back — Kat Armstrong (book review, part 2)

In part 1 of this review, we introduced Kat Armstrong's No More Holding Back: Emboldening Women to Move Past Barriers, See Their Worth, and Serve God Everywhere. We primarily found that Armstrong advocates an over-realized soteriology of women which interprets Mary...

No More Holding Back — Kat Armstrong (book review, part 1)

As Kat Armstrong opens No More Holding Back: Emboldening Women to Move Past Barriers, See Their Worth, and Serve God Everywhere (Thomas Nelson, July 2019), she tells a story of an incident. In the middle of a class at Dallas Seminary, she lamented to her professor,...

1 Timothy 2:12 Revisited — The Authority Word Problem

In How to Use a "For" Clause: 1 Timothy 2:12 and Egalitarianism, I explained how the two phrases in verses 13 and 14 should guide our understanding of how Paul uses the verb "do not permit" in verse 12. More recently, I came across Defusing the 1 Timothy 2:12 Bomb, an...

Women Professors and the Seminary’s Place in the Church

John Piper controversially opined back in January that women should not teach in seminaries. The essential reason he gave is that seminary professors should be models of the pastoral office that seminary students can emulate. I made some thoughts on the topic known on...

How to Use a “For” Clause: 1 Timothy 2:12 and Egalitarianism

Did Paul mean in 1 Timothy 2:12 that he is really prohibiting women from teaching or exercising authority over men on a permanent basis? Let's do some grammar work. 12 I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead, she is to remain quiet. 13...