Carrying on with our series on gender and the Bible, Amber Bowen and Dr. John Anthony Dunne are joined by Aimee Byrd, who is the author of several books, including Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Zondervan Academic, 2020). In this episode Aimee explains that, despite what one might suspect from her outspoken detractors, her book is ultimately about discipleship. She critiques the movement that appeals to “biblical manhood and womanhood” as truncating biblical gender down to discrete “roles” that are primarily defined in terms of leadership and submission. The result is a “biblical” portrait that is narrow and damaging. Further, she calls out the “fractional” approach to complementarity that views men and women as two halves respectively that only create a single whole when together. Instead, Aimee points to an “integral” complementarity, where marriage is seen as a process in which two “wholes” come together to generatively create something new. Although she is critical of the complementarian approach, in this podcast she explains her reasons for not being an egalitarian. And at the end of the conversation, Aimee gives us a sneak peek on her new writing project on gender-related matters.
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