corporate worship that is overflowing with spiritual gifts, of prophecy, tongues, interpretations, prayer, and singing. While Paul is counseling order and arguing for the superiority of some gifts over others for the building up of the body, the sense conveyed by the passage of the generous gifts of the spirit and their representation in the members of the congregation is striking and bears emphasis in a feminist retelling of the story. In order to reconstruct these assemblies and the theological
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