{"id":93,"date":"2015-10-27T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/felixculpa\/2015\/10\/radical-womanhood-chapters-2-and-3.html"},"modified":"2015-10-27T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T16:37:00","slug":"radical-womanhood-chapters-2-and-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/felixculpa\/2015\/10\/radical-womanhood-chapters-2-and-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Radical Womanhood: Chapters 2 and 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So my plan was\u00a0to only cover\u00a0one chapter per post. But\u00a0since I\u00a0asked a\u00a0gal to read\u00a0Radical Womanhood<\/em> with me, and to my pleasant<\/em> surprise, she\u2019s pretty snappy\u00a0about reading,\u00a0I\u2019m reading\u00a0faster than I expected.\u00a0And I guess since\u00a0it\u2019s my blog, I\u2019ll do what I want. Hehee. So, here\u00a0we go with\u00a0chapter 2 and 3: <\/p>\n

Chapter 2: Men Aren\u2019t the Problem<\/strong> <\/p>\n

This chapter was in many ways convicting for me. I don\u2019t consider myself a feminist, but that\u2019s not to say I\u2019ve never struggled with a feminist argument here and there. McCulley hits on a few temptations that are common to women, and I am no exception. However, with limited time and space, I want to simply discuss her overall point for chapter two. That is, that men are not the problem. Sin is. Her closing arguments are as follows: <\/p>\n

This passage (Gen. 3:1-6) teaches us that women do have a problem. But it\u2019s not men. It\u2019s sin. Sin warps everything, including the good that God has designed in being a man or a woman. Women sin against men and men sin against women, and everyone sins against God and falls short of His standard of holiness and perfection. Sin is the reason men have oppressed women and women have usurped men. Sin is the reason for the jealousy, selfish ambition, disorder, and every vile practice that characterizes false wisdom. Sin is the reason we need a Savior. <\/em>
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As a movement, feminism arose because women were being sinned against. I think that is a fair argument. But feminism also arose because women were sinning in response. That\u2019s a classic human problem: Sinners tend to sin in response to being sinned against.<\/em> <\/p>\n

McCulley then goes on to state in the closing two paragraphs\u00a0that the Gospel is the solution and where women (and men) will find true liberation. <\/p>\n

I love that she points us ultimately toward the Savior, and acknowledges that both men and women have sin issues. I think it\u2019s easy to get into a blame game when it comes to the problem of feminism,\u00a0but the facts are, as she said, that both women and men are at fault. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever read a book on Biblical Womanhood that admits that, so I\u2019m just encouraged that she was brave and truthful enough to do so. It\u2019s a well\u00a0rounded view\u00a0that serves to keep\u00a0me turning the pages. <\/p>\n

Chapter 3: Did God Really Say?<\/strong>
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In this chapter,\u00a0the author\u00a0builds on the idea that feminism stems from both male and female sin issues by going\u00a0one step further to note that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood. She quotes Andreas Kostenberger, who said \u201cJust as Satan reasoned with Eve as to why she should disobey God in the Garden, it is people\u2019s thought life that is the arena in which our spiritual battles are won or lost.\u201d She then follows up with a\u00a0momentous concept: Spiritual battles are won or lost in the day-to-day thoughts we harbor: Ideas matter!<\/em> <\/p>\n

So if we don\u2019t wrestle against flesh and blood, and spiritual battles are won and lost in our thought life, then that leaves us with a lot of work to do. Mainly\u00a0the work of becoming\u00a0imitators of God. To do so, our first step would be to\u00a0make His thoughts our thoughts. The Bible says His thoughts are not our thoughts,\u00a0which is to say that it\u2019s\u00a0not natural to think like He thinks. But we have to start somewhere, right? And\u00a0McCulley gives us something Biblical\u00a0to start\u00a0thinking about in the next few paragraphs by stating that submission is part of the divine character of the Trinity.<\/em> <\/p>\n

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Yeah, really! Here\u2019s are some notes on submission and the Trinity\u00a0from theologian Wayne Grudem: <\/p>\n

Never does Scripture say that the Son sends the Father into the world, or that the Holy Spirit sends the Father or the Son into the world, or that the Father obeys the commands of the Son or of the Holy Spirit. Never does Scripture say that the Son predestines us to be conformed to the image of the Father. The role of planning, directing, sending, and commanding the Son belongs to the Father only \u2026 <\/em>
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The Father has eternally had a leadership role, an authority to initiate and direct, that the Son does not have. Similarly, the Holy Spirit is subject to both the Father and the Son and plays yet a different role in Creation and in the work of salvation. <\/em>
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When did the idea of headship and submission begin, then? The idea of headship and submission never began! It has always existed in the eternal nature of God Himself. And in this most basic of all authority relationships, authority is not based on gifts or ability (for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are equal in attributes and perfections). It is just there. Authority belongs to the Father, not because He is wiser or because He is a more skillful leader, but just because He is the Father.<\/em> <\/p>\n

McCulley\u00a0comments that feminists put a lot of emphasis on roles because they equate roles with inherent worth. But that is not a Biblical concept.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Have you ever thought of submission in the context of how the Trinity operates? I have at a surface level, but Grudem\u2019s thoughts really brought\u00a0the\u00a0concept\u00a0home for me. Women get so tied up in whether men and women are equal, and yet, that\u2019s really not the issue. Of course we are equal. It\u2019s not a matter of equality<\/em>. It\u2019s a matter of functionality<\/em>. No wonder feminists get their undies in a wad. They feel their very worth is questioned and diminished, and that is bound to make anyone a big grump! <\/p>\n

Not that being a big grump is an appropriate, justified\u00a0response to what they\u2019re feeling (see above comments about sinners responding to sin in sinful ways). I\u2019m just saying it\u2019s an understandable <\/em>reaction. <\/p>\n

I am not a proponent of the self-esteem movement,\u00a0although\u00a0we\u00a0do<\/strong><\/em> have a\u00a0basic, human need to feel valued and loved and useful. But remember. We aren\u2019t so much discussing what the masculine issues are or how\u00a0men have\u00a0failed in treating\u00a0women appropriately. So the question is: how can we as women better\u00a0view our roles? <\/p>\n

I think a great first step is to\u00a0try out this new(ish) idea that\u00a0our\u00a0role is not subservient. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just different.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my plan was\u00a0to only cover\u00a0one chapter per post. But\u00a0since I\u00a0asked a\u00a0gal to read\u00a0Radical Womanhood with me, and to my pleasant surprise, she\u2019s pretty snappy\u00a0about reading,\u00a0I\u2019m reading\u00a0faster than I expected.\u00a0And I guess since\u00a0it\u2019s my blog, I\u2019ll do what I want. Hehee. So, here\u00a0we go with\u00a0chapter 2 and 3: Chapter 2: Men Aren\u2019t the Problem This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nRadical Womanhood: Chapters 2 and 3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So my plan was to only cover one chapter per post. 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