Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | Winter 2025
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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Winter 2025
Volume: 39 | Number: 1
Women and Risk
The risks women face are more varied than we might know, ranging from domestic violence to legal injustice to dangerous marriage dynamics.
Contents
The risks to women are many. This issue of Priscilla Papers increases our awareness and motivates our biblically-sound responses.
The followers of the charismatic Christian leader Aimee McPherson devised a way to gain from her giftings while keeping the traditional paradigm of masculine, muscular ministers.
A pair of poems on the woman charged with adultery questions the motives of those who would throw stones, and urges resistance to the stone-throwers.
The cross, instead of representing the dominated, that is, slaves and women, arguably came to represent the dominator.
By successfully challenging ancient Israel’s inheritance laws, the daughter of Zelophehad proved that they had “bodies to meaningfully occupy space, voices to be meaningfully heard, and ideas to meaningfully influence the believing community.”
A sermon that fleshes out a Jesus who “won’t stand for people using women or for meting out unequal justice between the sexes.”
Complementarianism can create the opportunity for the husband to mimic the behaviour of a domestic abuser, deploying coercive control under the cover of biblical sanction.