The Gender Equation in Human Identity & Function Examining Our Theology and Practice, and Their Essential Equation |
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Ch 1 The Gender Equation in Human Contexts 1
Why Another Study about Women and Gender? 2 Gendered Society 5 Clarifying Some Words 6 Some Aspects of the Gendered Society 8 Bias and Stereotypes 12 Language and Images 14 Double Jeopardy 17 Institutional Gender Discrimination 18 Transition to the Gendered Church 20
The Gendered Church and Other Christian Contexts 25 Hostile Sexism 27 Sexual Abuse, Denial, Cover up, Domestic Violence 27 Microaggressions 31 Benevolent Sexism 33 The Gendered Academy 35 Lost Voices 36 Gendered Worship 38 Shepherds of Injustice 41
Ch 3 The Gender Equation in Our Theology . 47
I. The Human Shaping of Theology 49 Primary Language Influences 52 The Tap Root Sin of Reductionism 55 Reductionisms Counter-relational Work 58 Genderized Hermeneutic of the Word 59 Samaritan Woman: Gods Strategic Shift 60 The Former Prostitute Made Whole 62 The Equation of Whole-ly Mary 63 Egalitarians and Complementarians, the Same Coin 65 Egalitarian 66 Complementarian 67 Stalemate, Middle Way, Compromise? 70
II. Theological Essentials for the Primary Gender Equation 73 Gender in the Image and Likeness of God 75 The Shame of a Gender Equation 81 The Norm-alization of Shame in Gender Equations 85 Old and New Algorithms for Gender 87 Authority and Subordination in the Trinity 89 Complete Christology, the Trinity, and Wholeness 90 The Primacy of Wholeness for Paul 92 Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian but a New Creation! 100
Ch 4 The Gender Equation in Our Practice 103
The Narrative of Paragender 104 Gender in the Eye of the Beholder 104 The Evolving Gender Equation of the Old Algorithm 107 Consequences of the Old Algorithm 108 Do the Math! 109 The Presentation of Gender 109 The Habit of Gender 112 The Addiction of Gender 112 Competing and Conflicting Gender Equations 115 Following Jesus as Paragenders 117 Unless I wash you 117 You will never wash my feet 119 Submission and the Relational Involvement of Whole Persons 121 As I have loved you . 123
Ch 5 The Gender Equation in the Church 127
Clearing Foggy Lenses 128
I. The Church of Gender Distinctions 132
Incongruent and Incompatible Gender Equations 133 Illusions Shaping the Church 134 Illusions of Sacred Tradition and Good Intentions 141 Further Issues Common-izing the Church 145 Politicizing Gender 145 Gender and Race/Ethnicity 148 Sanctifying Contextualization 150
II. The New Creation Paragender Church 152
Circumcised, Genderized, or Uncommon-ized 153 Demonizing the Bτsh of Gender 156 Further Qualification of Redemptive Reconciliation 158 The Church as the Reconciling Transformer 162 The Paragender Dance Essential for the New Creation Church 166 You Follow Me 168 Songs for the New Creation Paragender Church Family 171 Psalm 133 paraphrased 171 The Global Church Celebrating 172
Scripture Index (Primary Source) ... 175
Bibliography (Secondary Source) 178
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