Preface: Introductory Study

This paper searches to demonstrate that the sub-cultural biblical principle of gender is a community's pursue of peace by the Holy Spirit, which does not, first and foremost, define male and female roles and characteristics, but rather it defines the principle of equality incarnated within a culture with its definition of male and female gender roles. This quest for peace by the Spirit leads eventually, in the best case, to a reformation of society-structures (Gen 1-2; Gal 3:28; Rom 16:1-2 [F