Kevin Giles

Kevin Giles is an Australian author and Anglican priest. He has been prominent in the debate about the role of women in church leadership and the way that discussion relates to the nature of the Trinity. Giles was formerly vicar of St. Michael's Church in North Carlton, and is now retired. He and his family live in Melbourne, Australia. Giles studied at Moore Theological College in Sydney, and has a Doctor of Theology degree from the Australian College of Theology. In a number of publications, Giles has argued that complementarians hold to the heresy of the subordinationism. This is the idea that Son is subordinate to God the Father in nature and being. This has come out of debates on Christianity and gender; complementarians argue that just as submission does not imply inequality in the Godhead, neither does it do so in marriage. In his 2006 book, Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity, Giles argued that complementarians had "reinvented" the doctrine of the Trinity to support their views of men and women, adopting a heretical view similar to Arianism. In response, Wayne Grudem has argued that the eternal submission of the Son to the Father is a biblical doctrine, while Dave Miller has argued that it is the historic doctrine of the Church. One review of Giles' 2002 book, The Trinity and Subordinationism, argued that he "intentionally ignores the accepted distinction" between functional and ontological subordination, and that this negatively affects "his reading of modern evangelical writings on the subject."