context, save that of the most senior role of authoritative teaching.38 It is, of course, possible that situation-specific factors explain even these restrictions, but Paul’s repeated appeal to creation ordinances (how God made man and woman before the fall) suggests some timeless differentiation between the genders (1 Cor. 11:8–9; Eph. 5:31; 1 Tim. 2:13).39 Those restrictions, nevertheless, are probably far fewer than most complementarians care to acknowledge, even while still unsatisfactory to