9Marks Journal: Complementarianism (73-75期：互补主义-审判时刻)

A Moment of Reckoning

Our culture’s assault on gender differences and authority is generationally urgent because it’s unique to this Western moment, this time and place. So we must not take either set of problems out of our sights: the generationally urgent challenges to difference and authority andthe universally chronic challenge to equality. All this leads to our present moment: a reckoning for complementarianism.The task for complementarians more than ever is to continue reforming ourselves according to God’s Word. We must work to understand authority and difference as well as equality from the Bible. A right understanding and practice of each will be the best defense against abuse and abdication both. That way we will “Keep [our] conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when we speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation” (1 Peter 2:12).

第一部分，今日的张力：广义互补主义 vs 狭义互补主义

现在似乎是审视互补主义的时候了。因为最大的质疑可以说不是来自外界，而是内部。诸如雷切尔·格林·米勒（Rachel Green Miller）这样的作家打趣道，“我是互补主义吗？我想我过去是的。”[1]互补主义者艾米·伯德（Aimee Byrd）即将出版的新书传达了同样的矛盾情绪：《从合乎圣经的男女角色中恢复》（Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood， 2020年5月出版）。这本书的名字取自互补主义的代表作之一：《恢复合乎圣经的男女角色》。