"I just made this up, but it's true."
Okay, so maybe my husband has been right all these years, and all I learned in college was how to say "I don't know" in 20 words instead of 3. Dr. R made the above statement today while discussing a couple of concepts having to do with the complementary roles in society that men and women traditionally fulfill that will most likely appear on the next test. I'm sure that all he's claiming he "made up" is that he coined the phrase, or applied it in the particular context we're studying, but I did have to remind myself not to laugh out loud.
On the way home, I was wondering how this complementary structure of how men and women interact with the world in different ways, which seems to be rooted in our biology (the "true" part of the discussion), relates to what the Scriptures say about the differences between men and women, as well as how those differences are played out on a spiritual level.
My initial thought is that Dr. R, as interested as he seems to be in healing and spirituality and such, as knowledgable as he is about "religion", has never seen beyond the level of pure biology. It's rather interesting to me that he's mentioned a friend of his on several occasions who was miraculously healed of breast cancer. She attributes this healing to Jesus Christ. He relates exactly what happened in class with the straigtest of faces (how do you deny something physical has happened when an ulcerous lesion is just gone and when you really enjoyed the fried chicken after the healing service?) and calls it psychology and "faith" and electromagnetic energy. He reminds me very much of my old friends, the Pharisees in John chapter 10 who saw the miracles Jesus did, saw the blind man who could now see, saw Lazarus raised from the dead, and when they heard the voice of God speak from heaven said it sounded like thunder.
At what level does the physical relationship of man and woman joining their complementary roles together in marriage intersect with the spiritual reality of Christ's relationship with the church?
Stay tuned.
On the way home, I was wondering how this complementary structure of how men and women interact with the world in different ways, which seems to be rooted in our biology (the "true" part of the discussion), relates to what the Scriptures say about the differences between men and women, as well as how those differences are played out on a spiritual level.
My initial thought is that Dr. R, as interested as he seems to be in healing and spirituality and such, as knowledgable as he is about "religion", has never seen beyond the level of pure biology. It's rather interesting to me that he's mentioned a friend of his on several occasions who was miraculously healed of breast cancer. She attributes this healing to Jesus Christ. He relates exactly what happened in class with the straigtest of faces (how do you deny something physical has happened when an ulcerous lesion is just gone and when you really enjoyed the fried chicken after the healing service?) and calls it psychology and "faith" and electromagnetic energy. He reminds me very much of my old friends, the Pharisees in John chapter 10 who saw the miracles Jesus did, saw the blind man who could now see, saw Lazarus raised from the dead, and when they heard the voice of God speak from heaven said it sounded like thunder.
"For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."
At what level does the physical relationship of man and woman joining their complementary roles together in marriage intersect with the spiritual reality of Christ's relationship with the church?
Stay tuned.
posted by bullwinkl at 3:54 AM
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