Many of us think what he had to say
about women teaching and preaching was Paul's opinion, addressed to contemporaries of Paul, and addressed a specific contemporary situation.
On page 254, I quote again from Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood to share what John Piper and Wayne Grudem say there
about women teaching and leading in the church.
Jeremy, It's apparent from my earlier comments that I don't believe there is anything sinful
about a woman teaching scripture in any setting or a man learning from her.
Not exact matches
Their business stood out because, despite accepting both male and female clientele, the Westropp sisters wanted to have an all - female board of directors and
teach women about money during a time when men still controlled much of family and business finance.
Each
woman I've come across has
taught me so much
about doing things THEIR way, regardless of how things are «supposed» to be done.
The 38
Women That Have Accused Director James Toback Of Sexual Assault Are
Teaching Us a Tremendous Lesson
About Leadership
While these courageous
women are giving justice an opportunity to prevail, they are also
teaching us an extremely relevant and important lesson
about leadership.
What's more, she's also using the day to
teach her students
about the lack of
women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.
The training
teaches bankers
about the opportunities and challenges female financial decision makers face so
women business owners like Philp can develop the partnerships they need.
She is passionate
about sharing her knowledge through
teaching investment courses for
women and young adults.
Ashley is passionate
about teaching this technique to
women in the Chicagoland area and helping them to lift tone burn their way into the figure they have always strived to obtain.
But in Germaine's case — the
women she
teaches are talking
about freely choosing against their natures, against being moms, against the natural point of the family, against the future of our country and our species.
Sometimes,
teaching about sexual purity instils only shame and fear in young
women.
The social and moral
teaching of the Church insists that just laws recognize the truth
about marriage, that it is a relation that can only subsist between one man and one
woman.
How is it that an inspired
woman could write scripture (e.g., Mary's song), and an inspired
woman could determine for both a king and a high priest whether something is scripture (e.g., the prophet Huldah in 2 Kings 22 and 2 Chronicles 34)-- or at least could do these things in the time of the Old Testament — but an inspired
woman can not now
teach about God?
My cartoon and post make reference to his ideas
about the offensive presence of
women's bodies in the
teaching role.
They talk
about an attack on religious
teachings while speaking at an NRA event
about how abortion is murdering unborn children while at the same time wanting to go to war and bomb thousands of innocent men,
women, children, as well as innocent pregnant
women with unborn babies.
Yet «faithful Catholics» do in fact disagree
about church
teaching regarding contraception, the ordination of
women, and the nature of the papacy, among other things.
I speak out against your ilk and any other group for that matter when they attempt t use their belief to dictate rights... LGBT rights;
women's rights; education rights (in a secular country, no single religion has a place in the school system -
teach about one,
teach them all - fair is fair).
Like me, many choose to live out what the Church has always
taught about sex, namely that it is a good gift from God that is only for marriage between a
woman and a man.
I learned
about equality even from Paul, who
taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and
women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who
taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with
women he called «co-workers.»
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy
about Ephesian
women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian
women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
The black
women in my family
taught me something valuable
about standards and excellence.
THIS is the too - high cost of wrong - headed
teaching about humankind, most especially
about women.
We must ensure that our Catholic schools
teach Catholic doctrine, and uphold Catholic values — including the values that might clash with current trends in British society: marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a
woman, the need for human life to be cherished from conception to natural death, the truth
about our sexual identity as male or female.
The stories of the synagogue leader, the healed
woman and the ancient patriarch
teach us
about daring to hold God accountable for promises God has made to care for God's people.
The
teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical
women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable
about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)
Why do we hear sermon after sermon
about Paul's instructions that «I do not permit a
woman to
teach or have authority over man» while never hearing a peep
about Paul's declaration that «Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons»?
A recent study, «What Catholic
Women Think About Faith, Conscience, and Contraception» (see whatcatholicwomenthink.com), has shown that 37 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family plan
Women Think
About Faith, Conscience, and Contraception» (see whatcatholicwomenthink.com), has shown that 37 per cent of
women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family plan
women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's
teaching on family planning.
In a recent question - and - answer segment with John Piper posted on desiringgod.com, Piper spoke
about his beliefs on
women teaching in seminary and, relatedly, being pastors themselves.
With your help, I addressed Genesis 1 - 3, the Peter and Paul and the Greco - Roman household codes, misconeptions regarding egalitarianism, the problems of patriarchy, and those difficult passages
about Ephesian
women teaching and leading men.
What if one day we come to regard biblical
teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard
teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or
women covering their heads in church?
Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against
women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its
teachings about male headship,
women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.
There were pictures of
women, every tribe, every tongue, on every wall, and so it felt like everyone here in the world was there with us, somehow, and a gigantic canvas on the stairs said: There is no such thing as small change, and the famous red couch at Idelette's was worn out and comfortable, especially with Kelley sprawled on it, twisting her hair unconcernedly when she really got talking
about the theology of adoption and Lord, yes, that
woman can preach and
teach in a living room beside a piano better than some preachers I've seen in thousand - dollar suits on a television show.
As we deeply contemplate the great reversal in Luke, a rich
woman, Joanna, forces us to widen our definition of Jesus»
teaching about «the rich» and «the poor.»
You honestly believe, despite everything we have been
taught by cosmology, astronomy, geology, biology, history, paleontology and archeology, that the World began
about 6,000 years ago with one man, one
woman and a magic talking snake.
As such, I would not call Lydia a new believer here, but rather a
woman who was already a believer, but who had limited knowledge
about what she believed, and who came to a fuller knowledge of her faith through the preaching and
teaching of Paul.
Women of all cultures have much to
teach black men
about theology and the human struggle to be free.
Christians wish to minister to these kids — by
teaching them the norms
about men and
women,
about sex and marriage, that have brought decency to the lives of ordinary people for millennia.
There are a lot of things to be very «
taught»
about; seperation of church and state, civil rights,
women's rights, scientific discovery, environmental issues, ect.
In preparing to
teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first
taught the course to an adult class consisting of three
women: Jennifer, a widow of
about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from
about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.
This young
woman is very confused and seems not to understand what science has
taught us
about the origins and evolution of life.
I remember the young
woman in Nashville who pulled me aside, tears brimming in her blue eyes, to tell me
about how her mother worried
about her, argued with her, and was deeply disappointed in her... for going to seminary and becoming a pastor (when «the Bible clearly
teaches»
women can not serve in such a way).
I sometimes wonder if, as a man, I have anything to
teach you
about being a
woman.
If you look superficially at what Paul said
about women in the New Testament,
women should be silent, remain at home, ask their husbands and abstain from
teaching.
Questioned
about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a
woman, open to procreation and following the
teaching of the Catholic Church.
So until then, I recognize that what I was
taught in these areas might be wrong, and I also recognize that over the past thirty years, I have learned many valuable lessons and insights from
women about Scripture, and hope that I will continue to do so.
The Christian
women of the first century who repeated stories
about Mary Magdalene in support of their own visions, prophecies and
teachings would concur.
If it is sinful for a
woman to
teach Scripture to a man, is it also sinful for a man to listen to her and engage with her
about what she is
teaching?
After much study, prayer and thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to
teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a
teaching that came
about due to the status of
women during a particular time and culture and continued because of the patriarchal system that most churches have continued to operate under.