Is There a Difference Between a Prominent Apostle and a Notable Woman?

"I am not really looking at aberrations, contemporary aberrations of what the New Testament envisions leadership to be," he says. "These statements that I just read only makes sense within a secular,. non-leader, secular leader, non-leader hierarchical framework where leaders as a category are more significant and non-leaders since they fulfill primary roles in the church to maintain control over non-leaders." The relationship between male and female continues to be perceived in hierarchical ways according to one author.