The gender wars within evangelicalism seem intractable, and often stale. Complementarians who strongly defend the fundamental differences between the sexes and the respective roles that correspond to them informed by Scripture and nature are opposed by egalitarians who argue that the former’s supposedly “biblical” vision is in fact idiosyncratic within the Christian tradition and contingent on certain historical circumstances, and therefore irrelevant to a different context. There is a largely untapped resource which could bring some fresh life to these debates. It is found in the provocative book Gender by the category-defying figure Ivan Illich.
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