You and I can agree that Herman Melville is the author of Moby-Dick, even if we disagree about how to interpret Ahab’s obsession.
We can agree that John Milton wrote Paradise Lost even if we don’t agree on whether the narrative depicts creation ex nihilo or ex prima materia.
We can agree that John Milton wrote Paradise Lost even if we don’t agree on whether the narrative depicts creation ex nihilo or ex prima materia.
Similarly, fellow believers who share a high view of Scripture can disagree about the role that Scripture assigns to women:
Interpretive disagreement doesn’t imply a denial of God’s authorship.
Interpretive disagreement doesn’t imply a denial of God’s authorship.
At some point, the SBC has to reckon with the fact that the Conservatism of the Conservative Resurgence was at least as much cultural as it was theological—and a lot of that cultural Conservatism is either unrelated or antithetic to a high view of God’s Word.
If not, the SBC will cease to be anything more than a stage on which ambitious white men play Culture Warrior and give functionally illiterate lectures on the Marxist threats of feminism and social justice—a stage that is rapidly becoming a sideshow.
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