{"id":8862,"date":"2020-08-07T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2020-08-07T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T17:30:43","slug":"8862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8862","title":{"rendered":"COMPLEMENTARIANISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Carl Trueman:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I rarely read complementarian literature these days. I felt it lost its way when it became an all-embracing view of the world and not simply a matter for church and household. I am a firm believer in a male-only ordained ministry in the church but I find increasingly bizarre the broader cultural crusade which complementarianism has become. It seems now to be more a kind of reaction against feminism than a balanced exposition of the Bible\u2019s teaching on the relationships of men and women. Thus, for example, marriage is all about submission of wife to husband (<a href=\"https:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/esv\/Eph.%205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/esv\/Eph.%25205&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1596907609231000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFwVD06XRjOLm94scdoZ-Jy0wOfgg\">Eph. 5<\/a>) and rarely about the delight of friendship and the kind of playful but subtly expressed eroticism we find in the Song of Songs. Too often cultural complementarianism ironically offers a rather disenchanted and mundane account of the mystery and beauty of male-female relations. And too often it slides into sheer silliness.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Carl Trueman: I rarely read complementarian literature these days. I felt it lost its way when it became an all-embracing view of the world and not simply a matter for church and household. I am a firm believer in a male-only ordained ministry in the church but I find increasingly bizarre the broader cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,88,69,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-culture","category-love","category-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8864,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}