Articles
ICGS has developed a number of articles over the years, written in order to assist students of our courses to understand an issue, to solve a problem, or to make a decision. They are archived here for the edification of those who will find this kind of resource useful. Some of these articles are excerpts from our publications, edited for the wide-audience of the internet.
Gender Issues are Gospel Issues
The goal of salvation is God dwelling with His people in a marital union – Christ the Bridegroom and the Church His Bride. These roles are not mere imagery but are the true nature of the masculine God and His feminine creation. We men and women are created as icons of that fundamental reality. Our understanding of manhood and womanhood, then, unavoidably impacts our understanding of the saving Christian faith, who our God is, and our relationship with Him.
Is God Masculine?
Is God masculine? Is God feminine? Is God beyond gender? This article is an attempt to demonstrate the obvious and to suggest why many today give an incorrect answer to these questions.
Crosstypes
If masculinity and femininity are “hard-wired” by the fact of God’s creating them at the beginning, why do so many men appear to have feminine characteristics, and women appear to have masculine ones?
Lifegivers and Saviors
The Virgin Mary brings to a climax a relationship between life-giving mothers and their savior-sons that stretches all the way back to the beginning of the Biblical record.
C. S. Lewis on Biblical Sexuality
Here, we share some views on biblical sexuality from a “familiar face” within modern Christianity: C.S. Lewis. In this article, Lewis addresses the issue of ordaining women in the Church of England seventy years ago. He reveals the underlying issue is really the imagery of sexuality, which he insists is essential to Christianity.
Transgender
Teaching sexuality and gender roles in the church is not what it was 30 years ago, or even five. Some teachers, especially the young, are tempted to think they have entered into a different universe where their students do not know if there are two sexes or 47. Is this a whole new world of sexuality? Is this a different gender war than the one that has been fought for 50 years?