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S2 Ep1012: #1012 - Paul, Gender, and the Women in Leadership Debate: Dr. Cynthia Long Westfall

Theology in the Raw

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How Do You Navigate Your Faith in Following Christ?

In the new testament, husbands are never commanded to submit to their wives like that term is never used there. But you do see the relationships still one of reciprocity. So would jests, let's sum up ephesians five then xase we got other passages ive be got to get to. Would you say that paul is maintaining that wives submit to husbands, husbands submit to wives, but he's re defining what submission is? And then his command to love your wife almost becomes it on'ly say, practical submission. I wouldn't consider the household was under the authority of the church. If he were telling slaves not to submit, that would undermine christianity as

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