
S2 Ep1041: Women in Leadership, part 2: 1 Timothy 2
Theology in the Raw
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Paul's Prohibitions Are More Contextual Than Universal
There's something in Ephesus where you have women, whether we call them the new Roman women or not, just wealthy women displaying their wealth and engaging in sexual promiscuity. If one or both of these specific backdrops are kind of embraced as the lens through it's read Paul, then this could yield evidence that Paul's prohibitions are more contextual than universal. It is true that these new Roman women were known for sort of domineering their husbands who put up with adulterous affairs.
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