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Posted on 11/20/2025 6:12:05 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
In response to the erosion of the biblical paradigm of gender and marriage in modern Western society, some believers are inclined to support any promotion of heterosexual monogamous marriage as a positive moral force. However, this impulse can be dangerous, as certain conservative ideologies, while outwardly compatible with biblical values, are fundamentally incompatible with Christian teachings…
A case in point is the version of marriage and gender promoted by the National Socialists in Germany during their ascent to power in the 1930s and 1940s…
Salvation—it would not be a stretch to use that word—came from both the man and the woman working together. Hitler himself affirmed the importance of marriage: “It is therefore our highest task to enable two companions for life and comrades in work to form a family …for the ultimate destruction of the family would mean the end of all higher forms of human life.”
Conversely, Barth’s christological starting point revealed an entirely different perspective on marriage and gender…
To live in the created world is to encounter being made male or female and thus to be confronted with the need to find a meaning to this experience…But this meaning can only be found in the covenant between Christ and the church, which is the ultimate meaning of history.
Thus, in Barth’s system, we cannot look at the goal of gender and marriage apart from this christological definition, and consequently, it becomes difficult to deploy marriage and gender for a purely secular agenda…
Moreover, the only responsible way to act within the covenant of marriage is to come to that covenant through the covenant of grace. This means that we do not come to gender and marriage to manifest human strength, but as a witness to our weakness and our need of grace...
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Germans arguing with Germans can get Freudian very quickly.
And Barth was his name.
Party on, Barth.
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