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Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul’s Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Making sense of Paul's arguments in 1 Corinthians 11-14 regarding both the role of women in public worship and the value of tongues and prophecy for the unbeliever has long posed challenges for any lay reader or scholar. Despite numerous explanations offered over the years, these passages remain marked by inconsistencies, contradictions, and puzzles. Lucy Peppiatt offers a reading of 1...

worship, in which case, even though we have not previously understood the passage, the Spirit has led us to act correctly upon it all along. It may be that this proposal remains unconvincing for those who still wish to argue that Paul is the author of these views. There are some, as we have noted, who have heard a version of this argument before and have dismissed it. In concluding this chapter I will briefly summarize the claim made by a number of scholars in recent years that