Kevin N. Giles (born 1940) is an Australian evangelical Anglican priest and theologian who was in parish ministry for over 40 years.
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.
[17] 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.
"[18] In 2016, at the annual evangelical theological society in San Antonio, a plenary forum was held on the doctrine of the Trinity.
It also represents a determined push-back, in a highly significant evangelical forum, against what is increasingly being seen as an alarming departure from historic Christian teaching by evangelical scholars.” Grudem and Ware maintained their argument that the Son is eternally subordinated in role and authority to the Father but to the surprise of everyone present, after Giles had spoken, Ware announced that he and Grudem had changed their minds on the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son that hitherto they had rejected.