{"id":4015,"date":"2012-05-10T15:17:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2012-05-07T23:18:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T03:18:44","slug":"worthwhile-reads-its-patriarchy-not-complementarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/05\/worthwhile-reads-its-patriarchy-not-complementarianism.html","title":{"rendered":"Worthwhile Reads: It’s Patriarchy, Not Complementarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I just read a very interesting article called\u00a0It\u2019s Not Complementarianism, it\u2019s Patriarchy<\/a>, by Rachel Held Evans. Here are a couple excerpts:<\/p>\n

Complementarians are losing ground. And they\u2019re losing ground for several reasons:<\/p>\n

1.\tThey are losing ground because more and more evangelical theologians, scholars, professors, and pastors are thoughtfully debunking a complementarian interpretation of Scripture.<\/p>\n

2. They are losing ground because their rhetoric consistently reflects a commitment to an idealized glorification of the pre-feminist nuclear family of 1950s America rather than a commitment to \u201cbiblical manhood\u201d and \u201cbiblical womanhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

3.\tAnd they are losing ground because, at the practical \u00a0level, evangelicals are realizing that complementarianism doesn\u2019t actually promote complementary relationships, but rather hierarchal ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, Evans points out something conservative evangelicals frequently try to hide: \u201cComplementarianism\u201d is just a new word for \u201cPatriarchy.\u201d Knowing that advocating \u201cpatriarchy\u201d won\u2019t go over well, conservative evangelicals have simply played the rhetoric card by changing the term they use.<\/p>\n

For those who think I mean \u201cpatriarchy\u201d as an insult rather than a description of reality, consider this: In the current issue of <\/a>The Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood<\/a>,\u00a0Owen Strachan wrote, \u201cFor millennia, followers of God have practiced what used to be called patriarchy and is now called complementarianism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read a very interesting article called\u00a0It\u2019s Not Complementarianism, it\u2019s Patriarchy, by Rachel Held Evans. Here are a couple excerpts: Complementarians are losing ground. And they\u2019re losing ground for several reasons: 1. They are losing ground because more and more evangelical theologians, scholars, professors, and pastors are thoughtfully debunking a complementarian interpretation of Scripture. 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