Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | Winter 2015
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 2015
Volume: 29 | Number: 1
Status Quaestionis
Central figures in the decades-long debate over the biblical and theological case for evangelical egalitarianism give readers a sense of the status of the debate.
Contents
My perhaps-naïve assumption is that the editor’s introduction is the least-read part of any journal. As a result, I should briefly reiterate my first introduction from the autumn 2014 issue—in case you missed it. My name is Jeff Miller. My wife Dana and I live, work, and minister in the mountains of eastern [...]
From creation to new creation, the Bible’s message about gender in the church and marriage consistently affirms the equal standing of man and woman.
It is common to view the entire debate between complementarianism and egalitarianism in terms of which side has more biblical support. Both sides of the debate have an explicitly high view of scripture that gives biblical texts a central place of authority. Exegetical theology, then, is naturally given a tremendous amount of weight—as are [...]
This paper briefly considers historical material often overlooked by evangelicals in assessing the theological orthodoxy of egalitarians.
The bitter debate among evangelicals is not about male and female “roles,” or male and female “differentiation,” or the “complementarity” of the sexes.
The purposes of the book are to provide a general introduction to evangelicalism and offer a global survey of the topic.
