The Awkward Apocalypse
A deconstructing missionary examines Christian culture against the authority of Scripture
The Awkward Apocalypse
16 - Deconstructing Complementarianism (The Making of Biblical Womanhood Book Review)
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Corey Koon
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Season 1
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Episode 16
My whole life I've believed that complementarianism was clearly biblical and that those who argued for an egalitarian reading of Scripture were sacrificing biblical authority to do so. Beth Allison Barr's book, however, lays out a pretty convincing case that egalitarianism is the most natural reading of Scripture as a whole and that patriarchal structures twisted the Bible to gain power and to translate Scripture according to their desired interpretation. This is my review of the book The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr.