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)