Last week we sketched the nature of the Gospel Story at Southern Seminary. Lisa Weaver Swartz, in Stained Glass Ceilings: How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power., contends there are two stories at work at that seminary. The second story is the embodied, material, and narrated story of the conservative resurgence that occurred under Al Mohler. Thicker descriptions of evangelical pockets, as Weaver Swartz provides in this book, shed so much light on evangelicalism. We are indebted to her study.
“she observes how power comes into play by who gets to tell the story.” Sadly, I know many men who wouldn’t read this book simply because it was written by a woman (and sadly that used to be me). It shouldn’t be this way, but I wonder if there are any books by men in the “in” group that do this kind of historical evaluation of complementarianism (similar to Du Mez, Barr, Byrd etc) and if that would help gain a larger/fairer hearing...
“she observes how power comes into play by who gets to tell the story.” Sadly, I know many men who wouldn’t read this book simply because it was written by a woman (and sadly that used to be me). It shouldn’t be this way, but I wonder if there are any books by men in the “in” group that do this kind of historical evaluation of complementarianism (similar to Du Mez, Barr, Byrd etc) and if that would help gain a larger/fairer hearing...