Kevin Giles

Kevin Giles is an Australian evangelical Anglican priest and theologian who was in parish ministry for over 40 years. He and his family live in Melbourne, Australia. Giles studied at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Durham University, England and Tubingen University, Germany.Hehas a Doctor of Theology degree from the Australian College of Theology.

Giles has published widely on matters related to the health and growth of the church, some at a popular level and some at an academic level. He has scholarly books on church leadership, the doctrine of the church, the biblical case for gender equality, the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son. He has been prominent in the debate about the status and ministry of women and the way complemetarians have until recently grounded women’s subordination in the Trinity.

In a number of publications, Giles has argued that complementarians have unwittingly embraced the heresy of subordinationism by arguing that the Trinity is "hierarchically" ordered; specifically that the Son is necessarily and eternally subordinated in authority to the Father. Since his subordination is what irrevocably identifies him as the Son in distinction to the Father, a difference in being is implied. 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. He has consistently argued that the Nicene doctrine of the Trinity, the creeds and confessions exclude any hierarchically ordering in the eternal or immanent Trinity and there is no correlation between a threefold divine relationship in heaven and a twofold, male–female relationship on earth.

In response, Wayne Grudem has argued that the eternal subordination 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."

• Giles, Kevin (1977). Women & Their Ministry: a case for equal ministries in the church today. East Malvern, Victoria: Dove Communications. ISBN 978-0-859-24057-4. OCLC 5172623.
• ——— (1989). Patterns of Ministry Among the First Christians. Melbourne, Australia: Collins Dove. ISBN 978-0-859-24729-0. OCLC 20924627.
• ——— (1995). What on Earth is the Church?: An Exploration in New Testament Theology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-0-830-81868-6. OCLC 33243701.
• ——— (2002). The Trinity & Subordinationism: the doctrine of God and the contemporary gender debate. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-0-830-82663-6. OCLC 48475643.
• ——— (2006). Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity. Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-26664-8. OCLC 62509109.
• ——— (2012). The Eternal Generation of the Son: maintaining orthodoxy in Trinitarian theology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-0-830-83965-0. OCLC 759909803.