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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...

but they do not explore it very fully. Just what is a role, ethically? I argue that any ethic of roles necessarily involves time (narrative), character, and community. True, the way we live out some limited roles (say, being a lawyer) is external to a person’s character. The role may tell us nothing about what the person is actually like, morally speaking. Other social roles (like being a parent) display the moral virtues or vices of the actor. I argue that gender roles are the latter type—that is,
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