Saturday, October 22, 2005

"A shift away from a male/female anthropology to an androgynous viewpoint, one that maintains that our sexuality is external to our essential being. Maleness and femaleness, this understanding has asserted are externalcharacteristics which have no bearning on the fundamental humanness that forms the true essence of all persons regardless of sex."

"Althought the androgyny model provoded a much-needed corrective to the traditional view concerning gender roles, its own foundational flaw soon emerged. At it basis lies a denial of all sexually based distinctions. [...] this violates the emphasis on embodiment, for it posits some ultimate humanness beyond existence as male and females. [...] The androgynous ideal is likewise theologically questionable, because it is based on an erroneous view of sin. It sees sin primarily as sensuous in nature and ascribes our sexual polarity to the fallen human nature"
S.J. Grenz, Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective (Westminster Press: Kentucky, 1990) 38

Interesting thought...
I may add it into the class discussion on egalitarianism/complementarianism.

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