Sons of Patriarchy The Trinity and Gender Roles
Jan 13, 2025
Join Jeff Moss, a former CREC minister with over a decade in ecclesiastical circles, as he critiques the implications of Trinitarian formulations on gender roles. The duo delves into the controversy surrounding the Father-Son dynamic, exploring how it can be misinterpreted to justify patriarchal structures. They also discuss the eternal obedience of the Son and its theological ramifications, challenging common metaphors and doctrines that underpin gender hierarchies. Ultimately, they propose a more equitable understanding of the Trinity that promotes healthy relationships.
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Trinity Analogies Can Mislead About Gender
- Metaphors help but fail to fully describe the Trinity, and dangerous analogies arise when we map human gender roles onto divine relations.
- Equating the Father's authority with masculinity and the Son's submission with femininity distorts both theology and human relationships.
Eternal Submission Clashes With Orthodoxy
- Doug Wilson claims Nicene orthodoxy but describes the Son as eternally subordinate, creating theological tension.
- Eternal obedience language conflicts with historic Trinitarian affirmations of equality and begottenness.
Reframing Begottenness As Obedience
- Wilson reframes eternal generation as 'eternal obedience' and the Father's being as 'authority,' treating relational terms as ontological.
- This reframing risks intellectual sleight-of-hand that undermines creedal definitions.
