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Chapter 14: The Current State of Evangelicalism Regarding Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

Tools:
Wayne Grudem
An Overview of Complementarian, Egalitarian, and Undecided Groups Today

14.1 Complementarian Groups (518)
        1. Two-Point Complementarian (518)
        2. One-Point Complementarian (520)

14.2 Egalitarian Groups (521)
        1. Liberal Denominations (521)
        2. Culturally Sensitive Egalitarians (521)
        3. Experience-Oriented Egalitarians (522)
        4. Leader-Influenced Egalitarians (523)

14.3 Undecided or Uncommitted (523)

14.4 Some Personal Observations
          on the Current Controversy
(524)
        1. Male chauvinism has been the major problem through
             much of history (524)
        2. Egalitarianism is not advancing on the strength
             of exegetical arguments from Scripture. (526)
        3. How does the egalitarian position advance? (527)
               a. Incorrect interpretations of Scripture (527)
               b. Reading into Scripture things that aren't there (527)
               c. Incorrect assumptions about the
                   meanings of words in the Bible (527)
               d. Incorrect statements about the history
                   of the ancient or modern world (528)
               e. Methods of interpretation that reject the authority
                   of Scripture and lead toward liberalism (528)
               f. Rejecting Scripture as our authority and deciding
                  this question on the basis of experience and
                  personal inclination (529)
               g. Suppression of information (529)
        4. Egalitarianism has two significant allies (530)

14.5 Egalitarianism is an Engine that will Pull Many
          Destructive Consequences in its Train
(531)

14.6 A strategy for Complementarians (532)

14.7 Expectations for the Future (534)