Amanda Beattie on Egalitarianism vs. Complimentarianism
Amanda Beattie is an Intercessory Missionary at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City on the Night Watch who blogs over at Meditations by Night. Her posts are always quite thoughtful and thought provoking. I’ve had the privilege of meeting her a few times at various events up at the Prayer Room and her humility and earnestness for God have always made an impression on me.
Recently, she started studying the debate between Christian Egalitarianism and Complementarianism and is publishing her thoughts along the way on her blog. Her most recent post sparked a discussion on the subject in the comments of her most recent post and it’s been very intriguing. While I believe that we disagree on these points, I think her thoughts are worth reading and her blog is worth looking at regularly if you don’t already.
It never ceases to amaze me how long it takes to prepare these little blurb posts. It’s all the links and such.
- On June 30, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
- In Faith in Life
- Tagged amanda, beattie, blog, complementarianism, debate, egalitarianism
Interesting topic. I think your approach seems to be correct, as well. That “camps” must be found in Jesus, not the other way around. However, some of these “camps” I think Jesus might definitely say what He said in Luke 12:14.
When it comes to gender roles, I’m leaning much more towards complementarianism on it, because I just just can’t find any support for egalitarianism in Paul’s structure of the church, family, governance…
I have read some interesting commentaries on why he says to Timothy that women will be redeemed by childbearing that also support a complementarian view. If I can hunt it down, I’ll send it along.
@Steven: Looking forward to it. :)