Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Can't Impress.

Well, be your husband and other transgressive ideas, November 9, 2021.

Introduction is trendy as it may be to rage against the patriarchy for progressive evangelicals

the key to doing this successfully is to rage against the exegesis, which is to say to

rage against the clear implications of the text.

I've been astonished at how often a plain statement of scripture is simply backhanded in

a discussion among Christians as though the presence of raw unbelief under the guise

of anger or hurt or something somehow settled a matter.

And if you press the issue with such a person, the attitude expressed goes from contemptuous

dismissal to want a white-hot anger and indignation.

The end of the affairs of the responsible exegete, the labor to determine what the text

actually required of us is dismissed as a hater and bigot, and is forced to begin thinking

about what ministry and a Siberian camps might be like.

This is because the liberal is at liberty to tell us what the bigoted text says, ho ho ho,

while the evangelical is employed on the faculty of an institution that requires an annual

pinch of incense to be offered to the doctrine of inerrancy as a way of placating the donors,

and this means that the said evangelical faculty member is going to be stuck with the

results of his exegesis.

What to do, what to do?

The liberal can tell us what Paul thought and wasn't at quaint, not to mention hateful.

At the same time, the progressive and very stuck evangelical has to affirm whichever apostle

may have offended this time, but while maintaining that what he actually said was, let us take

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