{"id":68061,"date":"2018-02-09T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68061"},"modified":"2018-02-10T12:54:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T17:54:45","slug":"psephizo-ian-paul-theological-reflection-on-male-female-complementarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68061","title":{"rendered":"(Psephizo) Ian Paul&#8211;Theological Reflection on Male-Female Complementarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, gnosticism also finds expression in\u00a0<strong>identity essentialism<\/strong>, where the body is merely the vehicle and the over-painted canvas of self-identification.<\/p>\n<p>In the SEC Doctrine Committee\u2019s Theology of Marriage, this Gnostic precedence of the mind is continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is the way people treat each other that counts, not the shape of the fleshly tools they use to express this. As we understand circumcision to be of the heart and not the penis, so the way in which we must treat each other sexually is dictated by the heart and the Spirit and not the genitals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an\u00a0<strong>anti-incarnational false dichotomy<\/strong>, which sets up a false distinction between how we should employ both mind and body in relationship to others. It is also Hellenistic virtue ethics, which presumes that evidence (read, any declaration) of a virtuous motivation (\u2018I ended her life out of compassion. I couldn\u2019t wait for marriage because I was so in love.\u2019) is a true bellwether of right and wrong, rather than the actions in themselves, or foreseeable consequences of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psephizo.com\/gender-2\/theological-reflection-on-male-female-complementarity\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, gnosticism also finds expression in\u00a0identity essentialism, where the body is merely the vehicle and the over-painted canvas of self-identification. In the SEC Doctrine Committee\u2019s Theology of Marriage, this Gnostic precedence of the mind is continued: It is the way<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68061\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,389,168,177,398,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-scottish-episcopal-church","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68094,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68061\/revisions\/68094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}