Stan Gundry describes his journey to biblical egalitarianism. He came to believe that, though it was important to understand isolated texts on their own terms, it was nevertheless futile to believe that the debate between egalitarians and traditional hierarchicalists could ever by settled by debating the exegesis and interpretation of individual texts in isolation. The more significant question became: How is the grand sweep of biblical or redemptive history to be understood? With this question in mind when examining the issues, hierarchicalism, if consistently held and applied, will be its own undoing. Someday Christians will be as embarrassed by the church's "biblical" defense of patriarchal hierarchicalism as it is now of the 19th century "biblical" defenses of slavery.

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