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Paul, Women & Wives: Marriage and Women’s Ministry in the Letters of Paul is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s letters stand at the center of the dispute over women, the church, and the home, with each side championing passages from the Apostle. Now, in a challenging new attempt to wrestle with these thorny texts, Craig Keener delves as deeply into the world of Paul and the apostles as anyone thus far. Acknowledging that we must take the biblical text seriously and recognizing that Paul’s letters...

missionary, is concerned about getting his point across to his people, not with impressing modern Western readers with arguments that would work transculturally. Paul employs a transcultural argument only when he is making a transcultural point, and the wearing of head coverings, as we have suggested above, is not one of those points. Paul’s argument here involves two analogies: an analogy between a wife’s literal head (part of her body) and her figurative
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