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Gender - 'Christianity should resist the current secular views of…
Gender - 'Christianity should resist the current secular views of gender'
Gender roles
Secular views:
Undermines traditional Christian laws for women
'They are told that brining up children is their divine mission' Simone De Beauvoir
Acceptance of contraception
Christianity
household roles
Colossians 3:18 'Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.'
Ephesians 5:22: 'Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.'
Patriarchal views that degrade and objectify women - women must obey husbands
Catholicism
Contraception
Unaccepted to 'block' natural reproduction but can allow natural use of cycle knowledge to improve chances of no child
Modern Christian teachings
Less rigid with gender roles
2014 act: allows women to become bishops within CofE
Christians could argue that main message of Christian teachings about gender is a message of love and mutual love and respect under God
Muleris Dignitatiem Chpt 6: 'Both men & women are human beings to an equal degree, both are created in God's image.'
However, Humanist could be argued that the 'Christian' moral values are just human moral values
Eval:
Ultimately secular views undermine gender equality and provide more freedom, specifically for women. However, there are still Christian teachings that allow for fluidity on approach
Family
Secular
Christian
Gender
relationship between someone's physical characteristics, their gender expression and their gender identification.
Secular
Gender is acquired as a child -
Societal influences on young children - like toys, clothes expectations and stereotyping, all enforced consciously or subconsciously by family and friends
Simone De Beauvoir: 'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.'
Christian
Bible
each gender created for different purposes
All made in Gods image so no bias
'No longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.' Galations 3:28
Patriachy
Roles on gender
Eval:
Bible isn't specific with gender identity, but enforces gender roles and has heavy weighting on patriarchal ideas.
Motherhood
Intro
The secular view on gender is very different to the view in the bible and so clashes often with the ideas of gender roles, family and motherhood specifically. This essay will evaluate all those topics against Christianity and conclude that it shouldn't resist the current secular views.
Conclusion
Ultimately no