Date

9-25-2025

Department

Rawlings School of Divinity

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy in Theology and Apologetics (PhD)

Chair

Anthony Chad Thornhill

Keywords

Egalitarianism, Women in ministry, Church leadership, Gender studies, Biblical Anthropology

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Abstract

There are several sensitive and polarized issues confronting the church in our day, one of them has turned egalitarians and complementarians into warring camps – men and women’s role in the home, church, and society. The last twenty years have seen an intensification in egalitarian publications. However, a critical examination of egalitarian theology in some major works presents a concerning deficit in adhering to the principles of biblical theology, hermeneutics, and logic. This literary research is a biblical canonical survey of egalitarian theology based on existing scholarly perspectives among North American evangelicals. It is apparent that egalitarian biblical theology lacks uniformity and retains a dichotomous position of a high view of scripture and feminism, as demonstrated in the study below. Though their hermeneutical theory, for the most part, is accurate, it grinds to a halt at the point of carrying out the actual duty of interpretation. Their argumentation and logic have sometimes occasioned an incoherent and problematic theology of God’s design for man and woman.

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