One-point complementarianism vs two-point complementarianism

[Gregorikos]

Reading an excellent 2022 book - How God Sees Women by Terran Williams, in which he describes "one-point" and "two-point" complementarianism.

One-point complementarianism holds that females are allowed to lead men in church and society, even though wives are to practise some kind of one-way submission to their husbands.[324] This is different from two-point complementarianism, which calls for female submission in marriage and in church. Interestingly, many biblical scholars and churches all over the world hold to one-point complementarianism.[Williams, Terran. How God Sees Women: The End of Patriarchy (pp. 151-152). Kindle Edition. ]

I have not heard this terminology before. Have you? This seems useful.

 

[Paidiske]

I haven't heard the terms before, but I don't see how they're useful really. "A bit less oppressive" vs. "a bit more oppressive" is still all oppressive.

 

[AngelusSax]

I've not heard these terms before, but now I have something else to research I guess.

 

[John Owen]

I have never heard it before. Although I was saved and discipled in a strong complimentarian church, so I have not been exposed to women leaders in church.

But I do really like Anne Graham Lotz.

 

[Gregorikos]

Thanks, all. That book I read above may be the best layman level book I ever read on the subject. The author was a megachurch pastor in South Africa, a complementarian who became an egalitarian. He lays out his Scriptural convictions very well.