Mere Complementarianism | The Kenwood Institute Podcast Episode 16

Is that a real question? Yeah, yeah.

Why is that? I think that what's going on is that people want to capture existing institutions because it's easier to capture existing institutions and to build new ones.

So that's what I think is going on there.

And so you've seen it at seminaries and in churches over the years, struggles.

Now, egalitarianism is a more progressive impulse theologically.

So it's not the one...

And egalitarians didn't found Southern Seminary.

They didn't found Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

They didn't found all of these schools.

Those were all more conservative schools at the beginning.

But over time, they want to come in and sort of take it over after it's been... establishes one thing, they want to make it another thing.

So I think it's a piece of...

It's not coterminous with liberalism.

I think it's a trajectory towards more liberal views of the Bible.

But it functions in kind of the same way.

Because where egalitarianism takes root, it tends to be totalizing.

Because we have colleagues that have taught in schools where the school... supposedly will allow for both views, right? It'll allow for both views.

But functionally, that ends up, if you're the complementarian, you're the mean person.

Yeah.

Or immoral.

Not just mean, immoral.

Yeah, now it's immoral.

Oppressive.

Yeah.

And so that's what it turns into.