I'm reblogging, because I have found this one to be an important discussion. At least it seems to be a continuation of the discussion found here at tenthstreetradicals.
Check out the links embedded below and mull it over. For those who would criticise that I spend too much time in popular philosophy and not enough in the word, that's probably true to a large degree of all of us. However, let me challenge: When we read the Bible, do we notice the role of women or rather, God's appointment and direction of women ? Counter-cultural women? Women who defy man's laws in order to honor God? Women who are courageously first and tenaciously last on the scene? Women who are used by God to change the course of history? Women with whom Jesus speaks, to whom he brings liberation, whom He commissions, restores, promises, meets up? Seems to me Jesus is egalitarian. Jesus is the philosophy I embrace.
Biblical feminism and third wave feminism
"(W)e are in a special position to add egalitarian Christianity. We can
invite another generation to realize that loving God and advancing
feminism are not mutually exclusive goals. For this generation, however,
textual arguments about the ancient Greek connotations of headship and
the convert behavior at Ephesus are less important than our personal
stories of all the different ways God has influenced our identities as
feminists, and how we have struggled toward our feminist commitment to
equality among God’s people."
The theological positions underlying the "Christian" side of this debate are colored by whether one is complementarian vs egalitarian. Each finds support and justification in the Word. The way you lean probably is less determined by your commitment to Jesus, but more by your particular faith community and culture as illustrated by Jenny Rae Armstrong's blog.
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