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Jesus, Justice, and Gender Roles

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• Author: Kathy Keller
• ASIN: B00A695EL0
• Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A695EL0
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Highlights

First, Scripture does not contradict Scripture. Or in the elegant words of Article 20 of the Anglican Church’s Thirty-Nine Articles, “neither may it [the Church] so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another.” The corollary of this could be stated thus: What is clear in the Bible interprets what is cloudy. — location: 85 ^ref-60951

Second, every text must be understood in its context—historical, cultural, and social. What was the author’s intent in each book, passage, and sentence, and what did it mean to the original hearers? The corollary to this principle is: We must find a way to obey faithfully whatever we discover to be God’s revealed will, even if our cultural situation has changed since it was first revealed. — location: 94 ^ref-46226

God gives unalterable commands, but he also gives us freedom to obey them in culturally diverse ways. — location: 103 ^ref-9349

Clearly, women are not prohibited in Scripture from most kinds of public speaking. Only one, the teaching mentioned in 1 Timothy 2:11-12, is off-limits to women. We will look at this later. — location: 136 ^ref-29040

This is her conclusion to both passages.

The elders of the synagogue were tasked with reviewing the remarks of the guest preacher of the day and judging them as true and to be received, or false and to be rejected. They sat at the front of the congregation, and if a true word was spoken, they were the ones meant to pronounce “Amen, Amen” at the end of it. Jesus’ offense, among others, was that by beginning his remarks saying, “Amen, Amen” (Luke 4:24), he was judging his own words to be true before they had even been spoken, taking that function away from the elders. Small wonder that the elders were insulted, since they were the ones to whom the role of judging truth from blasphemy rightly belonged. Their anger at being overridden was in a sense justified, or it would have been if Jesus had not been the Word of God incarnate, full of truth. — location: 166 ^ref-60389

It appears likely that these elders may have been the first paid clergy in the young church—their function was so critical and their training so extensive that it was appropriate to remunerate them so they could be free to pursue it. (1 Timothy 5:17–18). — location: 177 ^ref-4982