Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | Autumn 2000
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 2000
Volume: 14 | Number: 4
Women’s Roles: Society Vs. Church
Women are enjoying the growing opportunities to succeed in business and the professional world, however the same is not true across the church spectrum. This issue may give you pause to ponder this conundrum.
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Women are enjoying the growing opportunities to succeed in business and the professional world, however the same is not true across the church spectrum. This issue may give you pause to ponder this conundrum.
The more I learned about the debate raging in the scientific, educational, and political arenas over the origin and development of life, the better I understood the debate in the evangelical Christian community over the roles of men and women.
The Bible teaches equality. It reports inequality, and sometimes it permits inequality; but the Bible teaches equality.
I have presented women from both Old Testament and New who held the highest positions of authority that existed at the time they lived. There are many people, I believe, who will have more to answer for in the context of God’s judgment for the treatment of women in the church than just about [...]
There are profound metaphors of God as feminine in the Hebrew Old Testament. On occasion this poetic imagery is allegorized literally as female; most often the feminine appears in the Hebrew Bible in metaphor and allegory, as in Deuteronomy 32:18b where God, here named Eloah, gives birth to Israel in groaning and travail [...]
What language is most effective in communicating the true meaning of Scripture? It is the language of the people with whom we want to communicate. We are at a point today where traditional Bible translations, with their male-oriented language, seem to many to be outdated.
Palmer's underlying thesis is that the promise of the Father to pour out his Spirit on all flesh, male and female, and that sons and daughters would prophesy, relates to the role of women in the church today.
