For those who don’t see the apologetic/theological importance of the gender debate, refer to my last post, especially the quotations from Vanhoozer on the significance of gender and the ministry conflicts transgendered/transsexuality is creating. Karl Barth was one of the few theologians who dove deeply into the subject of gender and tried to make original [...]

The idea that we are trapped in women’s bodies or women trapped in man’s bodies collapses the distinction between sex and gender with a Gnostic, even docetic, disregard for bodily reality (he only seems [dokeo] to be made)… In refusing one’s biology, the creature refuses what is ultimately not merely a natural given but a [...]

Yes, I failed to mention that I never started on my research paper until this morning…and its due this evening at midnight. There was a bit of a miscalculation in the due date. So, for what it’s worth (keep in mind this is not a part of realapologetics.org scholarship, which is why I’m posting it [...]

American evangelicalism is being torn apart by the gender role and women-in-ministry controversy. Is gender purely subjective? What does “gender” even mean? Are men natural leaders, ordained by God to exercise authority over women in the covenant of marriage? And to what extent do women have authority in various positions of church government? Generally speaking, [...]

An Introduction to the Christian Philosophy of Gender – Part 1: Gender and Sexuality as God (and the World) Defines It As any philosopher knows, the most simplest things in life often turn out to be the most complicated. I was sitting in apologetics this morning for seminary, and my professor said briefly that “the [...]