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As Christ Submits to the Church: A Biblical Understanding of Leadership and Mutual Submission is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does Christ submit to the church? Should Christians submit to each other? What about husbands and wives? In this volume, theologian Alan Padgett offers a fresh look at the ethics of submission, gender roles, and servant leadership in the New Testament. Through his careful interpretation of Paul’s letters and broader New Testament teaching, the author shows how Christ’s submission to the church...

The Greek words for submission in the Bible are usually either hypotagē or hypotassō.8 While the idea of submission occurs in several places in the New Testament without the use of one of these two (Greek) words, we will start our investigation with a word study. Our particular interest is in the verb, hypotassō, because of its larger range of meaning, and also because it is the verb used in Ephesians 5:21. The Greek word hypotassō has a larger range of meanings than “to submit” in
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