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The Gender Equation in Human Identity & Function


Examining Our Theology and Practice, and Their Essential Equation

Contents

Ch 1

Ch 2

Ch 3

Ch 4

Ch 5

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●  Table of Contents

●  Scripture Index

●  Bibliography

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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

 

 

Ch 2   Lost Lambs……......…………………………………………23

 

 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

                Reductionism’s Counter-relational Work       58

    Genderized Hermeneutic of the Word                   59

                Samaritan Woman: God’s 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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