So please feel free to participate no matter your theological convictions
regarding women in church leadership.)
Not exact matches
The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a
woman, the Bible's instructions and stories
regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked
in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why
women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming
leadership positions
in the
church.
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.
I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant
churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept scientific findings
regarding climate change and evolution, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm
women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never hear the
leadership of the
church explain why this is the case.
In addition to that I would add that when one begins to think thoroughly about the idea that women should not teach scripture most (if not all) churches will have some sort of gaping hole that they have incorporated into their belief regarding this that has absolutely no scriptural foundation — not to mention they typically fail to confront the contradictions in scripture regarding women in leadershi
In addition to that I would add that when one begins to think thoroughly about the idea that
women should not teach scripture most (if not all)
churches will have some sort of gaping hole that they have incorporated into their belief
regarding this that has absolutely no scriptural foundation — not to mention they typically fail to confront the contradictions
in scripture regarding women in leadershi
in scripture
regarding women in leadershi
in leadership.