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Avoiding the pitfalls of both radical feminism and reactionary conservatism, Sarah Sumner traces a new path through the issues—biblical, theological, psychological and practical—that arise between complementarians and egalitarians on the topic of women and the Church. Arguing that men and women are both equal and distinct, Sumner encourages us to find ways to honor and benefit from the leadership...

other words, the wife is to see to it that she submits to her husband just as she is to ensure that she respects him. It’s not the husband’s responsibility to get her to submit; it’s hers. If he forces her to submit, then he short-circuits her submission and reduces it to something else. Submission is not submission—at least not in the middle voice—unless the one who submits actively does the submitting. The submission of a wife must be motivated by the personal will of the wife. In other words,
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