The Hermeneutical Move Is a Perfect Encapsulation of the Massive Theological Problem That the Western Church Has Had for Most of Its History

Paul never in any of his epistles tells anyone to exercise authority not one time. We're constantly taught that when he tells one person to submit especially when it's the slave or the woman right that he's implicitly affirming the mastery the exercise of authority of the other person. i think that hermeneutical move is a perfect encapsulation of honestly the massive theological problem that the western church has had for most of its history. It's just revealing our assumption about power and how quickly and consistently we insert that assumption into the text, she says.

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