subverting the faithful. They are well meaning but overzealous guides who venture into the dangerous waters of Christological speculation only obliquely, while attempting to press other issues.5 Bilezikian goes on to say that “some proponents of a hierarchical order between male and female attempt to use, as a divine model for their proposal at the human level, an alleged relationship of authority/subordination between Father and Son.”6 In other words, according to Bilezikian, the relationship between