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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...

a man is placed over her or permit women to teach only women and children. In many churches of the world, a woman would never be seen at the front. How women deal with this, approach it, and appropriate it (or not), varies from one person to another. I think it is true to say that some do not particularly care. Others continue to view this as somehow right and proper. Still others have rejected the Christian faith because of it, and this is true of some men as well. Many women and men are somewhere
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