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.
However you feel
about climate change, I think we can all agree there should be a
vigorous debate on the
issue, what to do
about it, and without criminalizing people who may have a different opinion.