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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)