Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The Trinity tradition : affirmed by all but actually rejected by some. Conservative evangelicals head off on their own ; The historical development of the Orthodox Trinitarian tradition ; Subordinating tradition ; The retrieval & refinement of the Nicene Trinitarian tradition in the twentieth century ; Evangelicals at the end of a very thin branch ; Appendix A : Trinitariograms ; Appendix B : the 1999 Sydney Anglican Diocesan Doctrine Commission Report : "The doctrine of the Trinity and its bearing on the relationship of men and women" -- The woman tradition : reinterpreted by some, rejected by others. Women in the modern world & in Christian tradition ; Women in contemporary hierarchical-complementarian literature ; Exegesis or eisegesis? ; An egalitarian-complementarian theological reading of the Bible -- The slavery tradition : rejected by all-some in ignorance some in painful awareness of its past consequences. The proslavery tradition : the Bible endorses the institution of slavery ; The rejection of the proslavery tradition ; The parallel exhortations to slaves & women to be subordinate ; Lessons to be learned & concluding thoughts ; Appendix C : homosexuality-a test case.