The subordination of the Father to the Son in Protestantism has been particularly undermining for boys & men in the church. Started circa 1900. Reconciliation is about God’s Fatherhood. It leaves young guys purposeless. God’s fathering has been neglected. https://www.amazon.com/Muscular-Christianity-Manhood-Protestant-1880-1920/dp/0674011252
It’s an over-realized Christology that rarely, if ever, explains/teaches the role of God the Father. Jesus points to the Father. Evangelicalism typically does not. It’s a subtle but important distinction that often motivates Trinity hunting into Anglicanism or Eastern Orthodoxy.
It may be safe to say that 2020 non-Anglican/non-Lutheran expressions are more “Christ-centered” than fully Trinitarian. Trinity-Centered liturgy & practice is very different that Me-&-Jesus-Centered liturgy & practice. The latter started to provoke men to be “on mission”(1900).
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