How Men and Women Express Virtue Differently

Christians need to resist the pressure to androgenize our faith

(For more context on this article, see my post from last week about the need for gendered virtue.)

For this post, my basic thesis is this: virtuous manhood and womanhood is oriented towards fatherhood and motherhood. To unpack this thesis, let’s begin with love. Love is the highest virtue (1 Cor 13:13). It is the animating principle of all Christian obed…