The Sexual Reformation: Restoring the Dignity and Personhood of Man and Woman Byrd Aimee
The Sexual Reformation: Restoring the Dignity and Personhood of Man and Woman Byrd Aimee Since the Reformation, Protestants have confessed that the church is reformed and always reforming. Why, then,…
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The Sexual Reformation: Restoring the Dignity and Personhood of Man and Woman Byrd Aimee
Since the Reformation, Protestants have confessed that the church is reformed and always reforming. Why, then, are we so shocked to hear that the church itself needs a sexual reformation? But do we really believe this?
But in trying to be faithful to the beauty of God's design for man and woman, the church has instead latched onto a pagan, Aristotelian concept of man and woman--that woman is by nature inferior to man--which robs us of the dignity of personhood as man and woman created in the image of God.Much of the evangelical teaching on the sexes is based on cultural stereotypes and an unbiblical ontology of male authority and female subordination. That the church has been fighting to uphold biblical distinction between the sexes against a culture that is rapidly and aggressively challenging this, is certainly one reason. While some try to correct this, they often flatten