Society and Women

"Equal treatment for women (or, indeed, for any people made in God's image) is not, as some would argue, an agenda borrowed from the secular world. The subordination of women, on the contrary, is an idea practiced (often in brutal ways) by most non-Christian cultures in history. It could thus be easily argued that the subordination of women in Christian history was borrowed from the "secular world," and that it tells us more about the societies in which those Christian rules were formulated than about God's eternal purposes." Craig Keener, ibid.