Women and men are one in Christ. Coming full circle to the Christian presupposition that women and men are one in Christ, the Pauline statement that there is neither male nor female has some intriguing implications for contemporary Western culture and psychological thought. In this hierarchical structure the paired terms have meaning through difference from each other, being defined by what the other is not. Further, in order the stabilize their respective meanings, each pairs' similarities are marginalized. This illustrates how Western culture has constructed a representational understanding of reality.
Contemporary psychology looks at gender as a continuum of psychological difference.
Taking a deconstructivist view of gender, the visionary statements of Paul regarding women and men reveal a Christocentric view of two as one and there being neither male nor female. Although Christianity may be predominantly viewed in a Postmodern era as archaic, primitive at best, Pauline principles regarding gender seem to push Postmodern intellectual knowledge to its cutting edge. Given Postmodern acceptance of randomness, incoherence, indeterminacy, and paradox, Pauline views of gender seem much more relevant than in the positivist paradigm which predated the Postmodern era. Conversely, use of deconstructivism may shed light on the, at times, contradictory nature of Paul's writings on gender. Here an insinuation of the need for spiritual discernment seems appropriate to understand what psychological researchers note as awareness beyond the everyday level.