“What are we fighting for? What are we defending?” These are important, if deep, questions about complementarianism raised at an informal lunch during CMS Summer School last month. I’m not sure that we answered those questions adequately.
Gregg Allison’s recent publication, Complementarity, is a helpful contribution which answers these questions, though not in a way that we might expect.
Allison is a professor of systematic theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a college that holds to a complementarian understanding of the relationship between men and women. In this view, men and women are created in God’s image and thus have much in common. At the same time, they are gendered as male and female, equal in value, dignity and status, and yet distinct. God’s purposes for them means that these distinctions play out in their differing roles and responsibilities, particularly in the home and in the church.
Read the full review here:
https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/book-review/engaging-in-gracious-complementarianism/
