Query: theological submission

title: The Church's Contribution to Domestic Violence: Submission, Headship, and Patriarchy
abstract: In this chapter, Daphne Marsden considers conservative Christian understandings of gender roles and relationships, and the way that these are rooted in biblically based teachings on male headship and female submission. Evaluating both complementarian and egalitarian understandings of Christian gender roles, she explores the use of certain biblical texts by evangelical Christians to validate patriarchal patterns of male hegemony, thereby justifying spousal violence and preventing abused women from seeking or receiving support. Interspersed throughout her discussion are the testimonies of Christian women impacted by gender violence, whose words illustrate first hand some of the consequences that arise from conservative Christian teachings about gender roles. They also serve as a reminder that the lives of real people can be impacted significantly by theological and biblical debates around these teachings. Marsden's chapter ends with some practical guidance on what churches can do to begin tackling spousal violence and the patriarchal ideologies that underpin it.

title: What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic in Christian Theological Schools
abstract: This article argues for reconceptualizing islam as 'wholeness making, peacemaking, well being making, and safety making' in the institutional setting of theological schools. A small number of Protestant seminaries have hired Muslim faculty and introduced Islamic studies programmes, thereby allowing for approaches to the study of Islam that focus on theology, professional practice and the lived experience of religion. Using the lens of translation studies, this article analyses the semantic and functional equivalence of this fourfold meaning in the Arabic source language and context, as well as the English target language and context, focusing on Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto as an example. The article demonstrates how this translation is linguistically more accurate than 'submission' and other conceptualizations and contextually better suited to meeting the theological and professional needs of students who venture into the workplace. Furthermore, the article shows how this fourfold translation serves as an overarching ethos in ethical reasoning, rendering the central theory of the objectives of the law (maqasid al shari'a) functional and pragmatic. At the same time, it provides a foundation for dealing with diversity and difference in interreligious and intercultural settings.

title: ChRIStIan fREEdom and polItICal SubmISSIon In luthERan thought
abstract: This article is aimed to show the crucial significance of the notion of <Christian freedom> for Luther's political reflections, as it enables us to directly reveal the foundations of his ecclesiological doctrines and to indirectly investigate the deepest basis upon which his theory of civil authority is elaborated. This leads us to point to the central role played by certain elements of Lutheran voluntarist theology, which give unity to Luther's thought and which, in the last instance, constitute a theological political model of doubtless influence on modern times.

title: Submission within the Godhead and the Church in the Epistle to the Philippians: An Exegetical and Theological Examination of the Concept of Submission in Philippians 2 and 3 By M. Sydney Park

title: Against Eternal Submission Changing the Doctrine of the Trinity Endangers the Doctrine of Salvation and Women
abstract: Etienne Gilson spoke of medieval theology as an attempt to build great "cathedrals of the mind," mental constructions meant to bring glory to God and to inspire worship as soaring stone cathedrals across Europe have since the same time period. Like any architectural achievement, these mental cathedrals brought together the many pieces of Christian doctrine into coherent and often beautiful structures of thought, building idea upon idea until great theological and philosophical systems emerged from scriptural foundations. This architectural analogy implies something important it is rarely possible to shift the ground floor of a building without the entirety of the construct tumbling down. Only with great caution and preparation, whereby new supports are carefully constructed before the old are removed, can such a change go smoothly. Unfortunately, evangelical theology finds itself today in a situation where a great shift in a foundational doctrine of Christian theology has occurred in the doctrine of the Trinity. This shift threatens several important Christian teachings and compromises the basic orientation of Christian ethics. As complementarian theologians increasingly speak of the eternal functional subordination of the Son (hereafter EFS) they move a central pillar of the cathedral of Christian doctrine, unaware that such a change could bring down the entire edifice of Christian theology. With this situation in mind, this article will not focus on direct reasons why EFS is a destructive articulation of the doctrine of the Trinity, though I believe it certainly is, nor will it primarily explain why the Trinity is a poor analogy for human or gender relationships, though again I believe that it is. Rather, I will seek to explain how moving the foundational doctrine of the Trinity leaves the doctrine of salvation (atonement) without structural integrity to continue the cathedral metaphor. But the problem does not stop here. When noted complementarians shift the doctrine of the Trinity by teaching the eternal submission of the Son, they foster a basic ethical orientation that is contrary to the biblical perspective and potentially harmful to Christian women. To put the matter as clearly as I know how, EFS eliminates the theological understanding preserved in traditional understandings of salvation (specifically what I will call transactional atonement theory) and it undermines the moral perspective within which such traditional theories are properly rooted in the goodness of God as revealed in the Bible.

title: Submission within the Godhead and the Church in the Epistle to the Philippians: An Exegetical and Theological Examination of the Concept of Submission in Philippians 2 and 3
abstract: Chapter 1: Philippians 2:5 11 Chapter 2: Exegesis of Philippians 3 Chapter 3: Mimesis and Power Chapter 4: Submission in Philippians Chapter 5: Feminist Theology Conclusion.

title: Submission to authority: a theological perspective on accounting and accountability

title: Parental relationships of theological students in reference to dominance submission

title: Identity and Formation in Theological Education: The Occasion of Intersex1
abstract: Formation towards 1vocation necessitates continuity and discontinuity with one's former self. Some commentators understand the language of formation as potentially damaging given the implications of submission and "unselfing" though formation might also be understood as collaborative and agential. People with variant sex or gender may be particularly at risk in contexts which exhort self emptying, given their already threatened agency and physical and psychological integrity. However, failure to give adequate space to reflection on sex and gender identity during vocational discernment and theological education may be detrimental to all candidates for ministry, not just variant sexed or variant gendered ones. The concept of re forming identity in relation to God and vocation is not necessarily psychologically sinister; however, questions of sexed, gendered and sexual identity require particularly sensitive handling in theological education institutions, since these facets of the self may be considered acutely vulnerable, especially in contexts where only some manifestations of them are deemed healthy (or even possible) in theological terms.

title: The Church and Gender Equality in Africa: Questioning Culture and the Theological Paradigm on Women Oppression
abstract: Pope John Paul II made a historic apology to several groups oppressed by the church since its inquisition started. The late pontiff's apology to women as a group was as a result of the obnoxious and oppressive denial of women's human right by the Church and the greater society because of the wrong interpretation of the "submission" clause in the Bible. The subsequent re interpretation of the submission clause in the Letter to the Ephesians strongly confirmed and affirmed the equality of man and woman and established the theological and philosophical basis for questioning oppressive cultural ethos in Africa and demanding for a theological paradigm shift which will help Africa to address the centuries old inequities, inequalities and injustices suffered and still borne by women in the 21st century. This article captures the religious role and position of the church and defines the basis for calling for a new gender approach within the Church that will achieve gender equality in Africa.