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Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul's Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians

Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul's Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians

Peppiatt, Lucy
Campbell, Douglas a.

Hardcover

Religion General Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $41.00

ISBN10: 1498236413
ISBN13: 9781498236416
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Mar 25 2015
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Making sense of Paul's arguments in 1 Corinthians 11-14 regarding both the role of women in public worship and the value of tongues and prophecy for the unbeliever has long posed challenges for any lay reader or scholar. Despite numerous explanations offered over the years, these passages remain marked by inconsistencies, contradictions, and puzzles. Lucy Peppiatt offers a reading of 1 Corinthians 11-14 in which she proposes that Paul is in conversation with the Corinthian male leadership regarding their domineering, superior, and selfish practices, including coercing the women to wear head coverings, lording it over the have-nots at the Lord's Supper, speaking in tongues all at once, and ordering married women to keep quiet in church. Through careful exegesis and theological comment this reading not only brings internal coherence to the text, but paints a picture of the apostle gripped by a vision for a new humanity in the Lord, resulting in his refusal to compromise with the traditional views of his own society. Instead, as those who should identify with the crucified Christ, he exhorts the Corinthians to make love their aim, and thus to restore dignity and honor to women, the outsider, and the poor.

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