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πρεσβύτιδας (presbutidas)

older women, female elders

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ἀλλήλοις (allelois)

one another, reciprocally, mutually

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ὑποτασσόμενοι (hypotassomenoi)

submitting, placing oneself under

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κεφαλή (kephalē)

head; source/origin; preeminent one

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διακρίνω (diakrino)

to discern, to evaluate, to judge

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τις (tis)

anyone, someone (indefinite pronoun)

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ἀνήρ/γυνή (aner/gyne)

man/woman OR husband/wife

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צֵלָע (tsela)

side, rib, architectural side-chamber

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ἤ (e/eta)

or; disjunctive particle used for rhetorical refutation

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ἐπιτρέπω (epitrepo)

to permit, to allow, to entrust

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μὴ κωλύετε (me koluete)

do not forbid, stop forbidding

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ὑποτάσσω (hypotassō)

to subject, to submit, to place under

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ὑπακούω (hypakouō)

to listen to, to hearken, to obey

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ποιμαίνω (poimaino)

to shepherd, to tend a flock, to pastor, to rule

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φλύαρος (phluaros)

talker of nonsense, gossip (but not idle chatter — more accurately: trafficker in foolishness)

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οἰκοδεσποτέω (oikodespoteo)

to rule the household, to be master of the house, to manage the home

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πρεσβύτερος (presbuteros)

elder, older man; church overseer/leader by seniority

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λαλέω (laleo)

to speak, to talk, to proclaim; general word for verbal expression

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γεννητής (gennetes)

procreator, begetter, one who generates life; used as an interpretation of kephalē

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אִשָּׁה (isha)

woman, wife; taken from man (ish); the female human being

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αὐθεντοῦντος (authentountos)

ruling, exercising authority (participle of authenteō, patristic usage from 4th c. AD)

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αὐθεντικός (authentikos)

original, authentic, authoritative; relating to the source or master

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αὐτοδικεῖν (autodikein)

to plead one's own cause; to act as one's own advocate (Attic Greek equivalent of authentein)

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ἀργός (argos)

idle, inactive, useless; also the eighth astrological house (house of death)

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στρατηγός (strategos)

general, commander; magistrate, police captain (civic official in Hellenistic and Roman contexts)

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ἀνδρὲς Ἀθηναῖοι (andres athenaioi)

men of Athens (Acts 17:22); plural of anēr used generically for a mixed audience

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λαμβάνω (lambano)

to take, to receive, to accept; foundational verb of reception and appropriation

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ἐν ἐπισήμῳ (en episemo)

with distinction, in a noteworthy way; preposition phrase in Romans 16:7 (Junia debate)

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ἀρχή (archē)

beginning, origin, source; rule, authority, first cause

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ἀρχηγός (archēgos)

originator, author, pioneer, founder, trailblazing leader

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προφητεύσουσιν (prophēteusousin)

they will prophesy (future active indicative, 3rd plural)

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נְבִיאָה (nĕbî'āh)

prophetess (feminine of נָבִיא)

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צָרַעַת (ṣāraʿat)

skin disease / ritual leprosy (Lev 13-14)

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μορφή (morphē)

form, essential nature (Phil 2:6-7)

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Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Definition of complementarianism: women and men are equal in value but have different roles, particularly that women should not serve as elders.

Framing the debate — defining key terms

complementarianism eldership gender roles
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Definition of egalitarianism: equality in both personhood and role, with no limits on what women can do in the church including serving as elders.

Framing the debate — defining key terms

eldership gender roles egalitarianism
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

For egalitarians these role questions are easy; for complementarians they require nuance. Examples include women theologians like Nancy Pearcey and the debate over women seminary teachers (John Piper opposes it).

Scope of practical questions raised by this debate

John Piper complementarianism Nancy Pearcey John Piper
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Women bloggers, podcasters, and YouTubers like Alisa Childers raise the same questions — she has more impact than most pastors.

Scope of practical questions raised by this debate

complementarianism Alisa Childers women in online ministry
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Can a woman correct a man's theology? Can a woman serve communion? The uncertainty causes women to hold back even from things they could do.

Scope of practical questions raised by this debate

women correcting theology women serving communion soft complementarianism
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Mike's personal journey: he wanted to become egalitarian, prioritized egalitarian scholarship, read Philip Payne and Linda Belleville, but did not change his mind.

Mike's personal stance and research journey

soft complementarianism Philip Payne Linda Belleville
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Video 3 will cover women in leadership in the Old Testament, including Deborah and egalitarian surveys of female leadership.

Series overview and roadmap

Judges Linda Belleville Deborah women in OT leadership
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Video 9 will cover 1 Timothy 2 — the key complementarian passage about women not teaching or having authority over men, including the word authentein and the cult of Artemis.

Series overview and roadmap

1 Tim 2:12 authentein cult of Artemis
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Life experience bypasses scripture on both sides: 'A woman pastor ministered to me' (egalitarian) or 'Women have frequently been false teachers' (complementarian).

Mistake #1: Life experience overriding scripture

bypassing scripture experience-based theology false teachers
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Mistake #2: Believing women in ministry is simply a result of the evils of feminism.

Mistake #2: Evils of feminism

bypassing scripture feminism complementarianism
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Mistake #3: Believing it is the 'evils of patriarchy' that must be fought — egalitarians who frame complementarians as patriarchalists use privilege/power language to bypass scripture.

Mistake #3: Evils of patriarchy

bypassing scripture patriarchy egalitarianism
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Groothuis's three qualifications — permanent, comprehensive, ontologically grounded — do not describe what complementarians actually believe or what the Bible teaches.

Mistake #4: Rebutting Groothuis's qualifications

complementarianism Rebecca Merrill Groothuis permanent subordination
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Rebuttal: women's submission is not comprehensive — Groothuis claims there is 'no area in which a woman has any authority, privilege, or opportunity that a man is denied,' which massively overstates complementarian claims.

Mistake #4: Rebutting 'comprehensive'

Rebecca Merrill Groothuis Discovering Biblical Equality comprehensive submission
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Many egalitarians expand male authority to its most monstrous extreme to make it intolerable, causing readers to reject complementarianism before ever reading the Bible.

Mistake #4: Egalitarian rhetorical strategy

bypassing scripture straw man argument egalitarian rhetoric
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Groothuis's argument only works against an extreme form of complementarianism that most complementarians would also reject — it attacks a straw man.

Mistake #4: Straw man critique

Rebecca Merrill Groothuis straw man argument relational submission
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Rebuttal: women's submission is not ontologically grounded — it is not rooted in women's nature making them inherently submissive.

Mistake #4: Rebutting 'ontologically grounded'

Rebecca Merrill Groothuis ontological grounding nature vs. assignment
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