Not exact matches
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.
I
suspect that if you took spousal and child abuse statistics in the US (and account at least a little bit for what goes unreported), you'd probably
find that the spectrum
of our «Christian» nation doesn't exactly have a lot to brag about either (but
of course anyone who abuses children or spouse can't POSSIBLY be a «true Christian»... and I
hope you see the irony in that remark).
He writes: «I
suspect and
hope that your listeners
find that their Asian friends and acquaintances had upbringings as varied and diverse as those
of non-Asian people.»
He
suspects the wind industry had him followed in
hopes of finding something to discredit him.
I recall the presentation he gave when he announced this study (I can't
find it at the moment but
hoping someone else here also watched) where he stated that he human activity is the primary cause
of GW, but the current (at the time) science was sloppy, thus he aimed to prove what he already
suspected to be true.
I sense that a couple
of years ago, the
hope was that technology would offer matching tools to weed out plagiarism, but I
suspect only the grosser and more obvious forms would ever be
found in that way.