James Dobson “saw children as naturally sinful creatures, inclined toward defiance and rebellion.” The reader must supply the knowledge that a Christian who did not believe this would be schismatic at best, departing from the catholic doctrine of original sin. These examples show the author’s familiarity with Christian theology insofar as she has a capacity for leveraging it. The literalist interpretation applied here to Galatians 3:28 would, presumably, be quite unacceptable for 1 Timothy 2:15. The parenthetical remark is emblematic of the author’s hermeneutic: nothing in Scripture is to be taken at face value unless the phrase would be acceptable in a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion oath. (In Christ there was neither slave nor free, male nor female, according to the Apostle Paul.) Outhern culture of master and honor seemed to conflict with the egalitarian impulses of evangelical Christianity.
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