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Rediscovering Scripture’s Vision for Women: Fresh Perspectives on Disputed Texts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does God call women to serve as equal partners in marriage and as leaders in the church? The answer to this straightforward question is deeply contested. Into the fray, Lucy Peppiatt offers her work on interpretation of the Bible and Christian practice. With careful exegetical work, Peppiatt considers relevant passages in Ephesians, Colossians, 1 Peter, 1 Timothy, and 1 Corinthians. There she...

something more clearly. So let us read this again with that in mind. “But I want you to have understood that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of woman is man, but the head of Christ is God.” In addition to this, and crucially in my view, we also have to acknowledge that Paul might have been referring only to husbands and wives. So we could say, “But I want you to have understood that whereas the head of the husband is Christ, and the head of the wife is her husband, the head of Christ
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