Sentences with phrase «christian perspective on the things»

There are some days I'm pretty sure I don't fit the definition of Christian in any sense, though I come from a decidedly more eastern Christian perspective on the things to which I still hold.

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I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

But the discussion so far suggests the possibility that a new Christian perspective on history may be emerging which will hold together the truth in the liberal doctrine of progress and the truth in the neo-orthodox affirmation of the judgment of God upon all existing things.

Of course, since Gras starts from the presupposition that Christians are called upon to preserve social order and to govern others (two things that neither Christ nor the apostles enjoined), he evidently does not grasp quite how anarchically unworldly my perspective on the matter really is.