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Start Date
17-9-2025 1:00 PM
End Date
17-9-2025 1:45 PM
Keywords
gender, identity, sex, femininity, woman, womanhood, athanasius, nicaea, humanity
Description
What is a man? What is a woman? Answers today are often given in terms of gender as a culturally constructed performance rather than created biological sex. We see this in the 2015 Vanity Fair cover featuring Caitlyn Jenner. It reinforced the idea that womanhood is a role to be performed, not an embodied reality. But we also see this when Christian influencers promote “trad wife” culture. It reduces womanhood to behavioral norms and aesthetic choices shaped more by culture than grounded in creation. This presentation argues that the Nicene confession of the Son’s incarnation is essential to clarifying contemporary confusions about gender identity. The eternal Word became flesh not in abstraction or symbol, but in a real, human body. This confession of Jesus Christ — who is the exact imprint of God’s nature — grounds our understanding of personhood in the goodness of creation, the reality of the body and the concrete particularity of human life.
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:7; Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3;
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Submission Cost
Free
From Nicaea to Now: How the Church’s Confession of the Incarnate Son Addresses the Problem of Gender Identity Ideology
What is a man? What is a woman? Answers today are often given in terms of gender as a culturally constructed performance rather than created biological sex. We see this in the 2015 Vanity Fair cover featuring Caitlyn Jenner. It reinforced the idea that womanhood is a role to be performed, not an embodied reality. But we also see this when Christian influencers promote “trad wife” culture. It reduces womanhood to behavioral norms and aesthetic choices shaped more by culture than grounded in creation. This presentation argues that the Nicene confession of the Son’s incarnation is essential to clarifying contemporary confusions about gender identity. The eternal Word became flesh not in abstraction or symbol, but in a real, human body. This confession of Jesus Christ — who is the exact imprint of God’s nature — grounds our understanding of personhood in the goodness of creation, the reality of the body and the concrete particularity of human life.
