It is commonly acknowledged among Evangelical Christians that it is unwise to build a doctrine on one verse or on one passage of Scripture. Still, many Christians use 1 Timothy 2:12 as the primary text and cornerstone of their understanding of women in ministry, especially of women as Bible teachers
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Three new books, two published already and one soon to come, have deconstructed complementarianism. Not that complementarians are going to fold up and go home and confess their wrong and become egalitarians. That’s not likely to happen (until Jesus comes).
No, I’m talking the ideology of complementarianism that arose in response to the ERA and became centered in John Piper and Wayne Grudem, then institutionalized in the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. It’s problem is not just the word “Biblical” but how both “manhood” and “womanhood” were defined.