Sentences with phrase «male headship»

It must instead present an alternative vision — a vision that sums up the burden of male headship under the cosmic rubric of the gospel of Christ and the restoration of all things in him.

Here he differs from other conservative Christians, including some Catholics, who think the reestablishment of responsible male headship in church and home is necessary for the reformation of church and society.

If these men want to teach male headship and female submission and can do so without oppressing anyone then fine, however, there are so many examples of their teaching being used to control, restrict, oppress people that it needs to be challenged.

In his post, Piper says, «submission does not mean you do not try to influence your husband» and suggests that a good test of proper male headship in a relationship is to examine who says «let's» most often — as in, «let's go out to eat, let's try to get our finances in order, let's get to church on time next Sunday.»

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood describes complementarianism as the view that «God has created men and women equal in their essential dignity and human personhood, but different and complementary in function with male headship in the home and in the Church.»

I believed then that this widespread inconsistency in the application of God's law invalidated calls for male headship in home and church.

«Rather, I would suspect that it flows from a very anti-theological desire to accommodate the church to a culture of blurring gender distinctions and antagonism towards any form of male headship.»

Complementarians like Piper believe these instructions are universally binding, and argue that what makes the New Testament household codes countercultural is their rejection of feminism in favor of male headship.

Here is a fast review of some of Wilcox's findings, all worth thinking about: Conservative Protestant men are more likely to believe in the principle of «male headship» than mainline and unaffiliated men, and they do less housework than men in either of these two groups.

Though John Paul II never speaks of male headship, he recognizes that inherent to their natures are differences in the way men and women express love for one another.

In an article in Lutheran Forum, I argued that male headship was not natural law, as Luther thought, but rather a cultural cloak for the law that calls for order in the home.

If all we are doing is saying «male headship» and «wives submit to your husbands» but we're not really defining what that looks like... in this kind of culture, when those things are being challenged, then it's simply going to go away...»

Ladd writes: «Sadly, many abusers have justified their actions under the banner of male headship, because at its core, complementarian theology is one of inequality and hierarchy.