gengwall

“I wish i was gengwell! Sorry Dave, i should have assumed better knowing you are a Pressie minister.

Let me put it this way, where i am studying at the moment, i have not met one egalitarian who holds to a conservative theology.

It makes sense really, since most ‘conservative’ churches don’t generally allow female ministers, so more often than not the egalitarians come from the churches that do- which are generally AOG or the like.”

I think you are drawing a parallel that is unsupportable. At first you said that you had not met an egal who was not “pentecostal or at least charasmatic” in their theology. Now you have changed it to “conservative theology” (what ever that is). The two are not mutually and universally inclusive. For example, you would consider Lutherans to be egalitarian because they allow female ministers. But Lutherans are decidedly NOT charismatic or pentecostal. So, although Lutherans may indeed follow a “liberal” theology (which is also debatable), they do not at all meet the first criteria you set for egals. I suggest your environment provides only a narrow set of examples.

I know this is a secondary issue but I just hate to be stereotyped. I am the least pentecostal and charismatic person I know (my Lutheran upbringing), but I also consider myself to be quite conservative in my theology, and yet I am egalitarian.