9Marks Journal: Complementarianism (73-75期：互補主義-審判時刻)

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，今日的張力：廣義互補主義 vs 狹義互補主義

現在似乎是審視互補主義的時候了。因爲最大的質疑可以說不是來自外界，而是內部。諸如雷切爾·格林·米勒（Rachel Green Miller）這樣的作家打趣道，「我是互補主義嗎？我想我過去是的。」[1]互補主義者艾米·伯德（Aimee Byrd）即將出版的新書傳達了同樣的矛盾情緒：《從合乎聖經的男女角色中恢復》（Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood， 2020年5月出版）。這本書的名字取自互補主義的代表作之一：《恢復合乎聖經的男女角色》。