God as man, man as God: no wonder many Christian men today are having a masculinity crisis
- Written by William Loader, Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Murdoch University, Murdoch University
How men saw God shaped how they saw themselves, and in turn, how they saw women. Wikimedia
This article is part of our Gender and Christianity series.
To understand contemporary Christian ideas about gender, and specifically masculinity, we need to go all the way back to the values that shaped Christian origins in the first century.
The pattern across...