TITUS 2 HOMEMAKER

(Missed part 7?  Read it here.  Or start from the beginning.) The Nature of Women and Men — No Nuance? We now enter part 3 of Beyond Authority and Submission, where Rachel Green Miller discusses modern conservative Christian views of men and women — generally considered “complementarian.”  And this is where it starts to get pretty […]

(Missed part 6?  Read it here.  Or start from the beginning.) First-Wave Feminism Having talked about first-century Greek and Roman culture and Victorian culture, and made some fuzzy connections between them, author Rachel Green Miller then turns to the feminist movement.  The clear theme of this chapter is that first-wave feminism was all good and […]

(Missed part 5?  Read it here.  Or start from the beginning.) The Gap Having looked at the First-Century Greco-Roman culture, we now leap forward more than a millennium-and-a-half to the Victorian era.  It isn’t really clear why.  Presumably we are supposed to accept the premise that Christianity swooped in and overturned everything modern egalitarians don’t […]