Relationships and Families - The role of men and women

Question 1

What is Christian complementarianism?

Answer 1

Belief that men and women were created differently to fulfil different but complementary roles

Question 2

What is Christian egalitarianism?

Answer 2

Belief that mean and women were created as equals

Question 3

What do complementarians believe?

Answer 3

Wife’s role is to support the husband by managing the family home and raising the kids, this is seen as equivalent value to working outside the home.

Question 4

What do egalitarians believe?

Answer 4

Men and women have equal responsibilities and duties towards God, other humans and nature
- They have equal obligations in terms of bringing up the kids, working together and using their talent and abilities complementarily.

Question 5

What is the Catholic view on the role of men and women?

Answer 5

The complementarian one. C of E is egalitarian.

Question 6

What is the view on women in churches?

Answer 6

• Churches can specify the sex of minister they want
• RCC won’t allow women to become bishops or priests because:
• Early church leaders were all men, Jesus’s men were all disciples
• Priests represent Jesus who was a man
• Mass is Jesus’s last supper and women can’t do this
• Tradition is men.

Question 7

What do egalitarians say about women in church?

Answer 7

• Jesus came to break down social barriers not reinforce them
• Jesus was following the tradition of the time, if it was today he wouldn’t do that
• God created women in his image as well as men.

Question 8

What does the Bible teach about the upbringing of children?

Answer 8

• Parents are required to discipline their children and help bring them up as obedient, well-behaved young people.
• Also as Christians
• Usually is RCC and Anglican Church the child will have infant baptism and be raised a christian, attending Sunday schools and incorporating Christian teachings into daily life, e.g. grace before a meal
• By 1 1 they will decide if they want to be confirmed or not.

Question 9

What is the Amish process of upbringing children?

Answer 9

• Amish can only marry Amish
• Women under the authority of man
• Amish provide schooling for the Amish
• School ends at 14 and they are taught practical jobs
• Man is in charge of spiritual life and family, also by providing for the family by working
• Women have a domestic role, and take care of kids.
• At 16 Amish kids leave to the real world to see if they want to be baptised as Amish community members.