Effeminate Gospel = Effeminate Christians
In the most recent issue of Chronicles magazine, Aaron D. Wolf has thrown down the gauntlet in his article entitled, Effeminate Gospel, Effeminate Christians: From Authority to Influence. This article is, risking overstatement, a tour de force indictment of modern Christianity’s abject failure in cultivating & nurturing true “manliness” — i.e., that which is based on the singular male role model that the Bible gives us in Jesus Christ.
Quite frankly, an honest & open reading of this article will leave you feeling more than somewhat disquieted. The pointed comments regarding contraception, for example (and to be perhaps recklessly honest), cut right to the bone for me, even as I reveled in other strongly made points.
If I’m remembering correctly, I’ve written on this whole topic of the feminization of the church before (although, if I haven’t, I should’ve, because it’s something that I feel quite strongly about!). The postmodern/relativistic worldview is one that shuns absolute truth. As Mr. Wolf so cogently posits, this worldview, then, cannot help but attempt to redefine what “masculine” means. In fact, it must necessarily do a 180 on the definition, so that being “masculine” is just like being “feminine” just with different plumbing.
In the end, it’s easy to see that Mr. Wolf laid bare the folly of the feminization of the church in the first two sentences of his essay:
Every definition of masculinity into which our Lord Jesus Christ does not fit belongs in the rubbish heap. Indeed, there could be no greater example of a man than He.
Christ is the model. Christ is the standard. Christ is the norm. If it ain’t Christ, it ain’t true.
This article rocks. Hard. Read it. Now.
-ghp
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