Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Okay guys, hold on to your hats because this is the episode where I cover most of the topics

that I get questions about on the regular. So questions about complementarianism or egalitarianism,

submission, authority, whether women can speak in church. All of these are related to the

passages we're talking about today. Now some of these topics will be covered in the episode

on the church in our women's issues series, but do keep in mind the principles that we discuss

in this episode because many of them carry over to our discussion of church and leadership in

the church, men and women in the church. So that episode will be closely connected to what we

discuss in this marriage episode. So as we get started here, I want to kind of lay a groundwork

for the terms we're going to discuss. If you were new to this conversation, words like

complementarianism might sound like a nasty spelling bee challenge and not just a reflection

of a theological stance. And so what what are these terms? What do they mean? Let's start there.

So there are two primary camps, two primary viewpoints in the Christian theological world

regarding the roles of men and women in marriage, home, and church. And the first is complementarianism.

The second is called egalitarianism. Now, complementarianism can best be described

as a view that holds that men and women are equal in value, but different in role.

So they have equal personhood before Christ, equal in salvation, equal in their inherent worth,

but they fulfill different complementary roles in marriage, home, and church. And so what this

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