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Hermeneutics and Gender

By: Finny Philip | March 1, 2007

Hermeneutics and Gender

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The Biblical Basis for Women’s Service in the Church

By: N. T. Wright | October 31, 2006

Misreadings of NT passages are undoubtedly due to a combination of assumptions, traditions, and all kinds of post-biblical and sub-biblical attitudes that have crept in to Christianity. We need to change our understanding of what the Bible says about how men and women are to relate to one another within the church.

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Chapter 16 in Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Dispensable Tagalong or Valuable Envelope?

By: Mark Reasoner | October 31, 2006

Like an envelope in which we seal a postal letter to a loved one, Romans 16 lets us know that real people, including women leaders, those with slave backgrounds, and those both with and without Jewish connections, were meant to hear and benefit from this letter.

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God’s Reign is the Reign of Right Relationships

By: Charles O. Knowles | October 31, 2006

The Bible teaches that God created man and woman subordinate to God, spiritually and socially equal to each other, and entrusted to care for creation. However, man and woman were not content with this God-ordained order; they wanted power over God. 

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A Two-Thirds World Christian Reflection on Head Coverings

By: William David Spencer | July 31, 2006

What is the niddah? The niddah ritual separation is historical in Jewish, Muslim, and some other religions. The niddah veil is their warning signal. They believe, if a woman is menstruating, she is unclean. 

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Biblical Egalitarianism and the Inerrancy of Scripture

By: Roger Nicole | April 30, 2006

The matter of the place of women in the home, in society, and in the church is not an issue that can be conclusively determined by a few apparently restrictive passages that are often advanced by those who think that subordination represents God’s will for women.

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Gender Wars: Biology Offers Insights to a Biblical Problem

By: MaryKate Morse | January 31, 2006

Men and women struggle to understand each other and to thrive together as God intended. God’s design of an Edenic relationship where the male and the female together nurture and steward the earth rarely seems to happen. 

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The “Difference” Between “A and Not-A”: An Analysis of Alleged “Word Tricks” and Obfuscations

By: Adam Omelianchuk | January 31, 2006

The obfuscation and equivocation of the word “authority” by the use of the word “different” is the real “word trick” in this discussion and it is ironically made by the complementarian argument, not the egalitarian one.

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