Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | Autumn 2024
An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal exploring Bible interpretation, theology, church history, and other disciplines as they address a biblical view of women’s equality and justice in the home, church, and world.
"Priscilla and Aquila instructed Apollos more perfectly in the way of the Lord." (Acts 18:26)
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Autumn 2024
Volume: 38 | Number: 4
Fathers and Husbands
Inattentive Bible reading and culturally-influenced theology lead to a flawed view of God’s desires for fathers and husbands.
Contents
This issue will nudge us to rethink what God desires in husbands and fathers. Fairy tales couldn’t help getting it wrong. We need not.
1 Timothy provides a series of examples of texts that we do not apply literally because they would make sense only in their cultural context.
A review of the thought and work of the influential medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas on the subject of men and women.
1 Peter 3:7 cautions husbands who fail to treat their wives with the honour due to them that such a man’s prayers will not receive God’s attention.
Hospitality, which in many cultures is allocated to the women of the family is a biblical male virtue as well.
1 Peter 2 illustrates that one with power shouldn't lord it over others because Christ is Lord of both. Jesus is Lord of all.
The pairing of the terms complementarian and egalitarian is faulty since it conflates structure and function.
“Silence” in Translation is the published version of Anna Sui Hluan’s PhD dissertation, which examines the Judson Burmese translation of 1 Cor 14:34–35.