Accomodation and a Genderless God?
The decision of some Reformed Jewish leaders in England to transform a book of prayer into a means for breaking the gender barrier (described here for instance) raises an old, pretty simple issue. But it also reveals a much deeper problem about how people attempt to evade the Bible’s message and use the very tools intended to clarify scripture to muddle it.
The simple issue is whether masculine pronouns and images used about God throughout scripture–indeed, used on almost every page–communicate something true about the nature of God. Christians have been arguing more and more about whether God is male, or masculine, over the past half century. C.S. Lewis’ article on what he refers to as priestesses in the church (in God in the Dock) is his response to the Anglican push in 1948 to ordain women to the priesthood! This article at Crosswalk illustrates how common the topic is by raising it as the first question at issue after the existence of God. Read the rest of this entry »
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