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- From: "Michael Abernathy" <mabernat AT cub.kcnet.org>
- To: "corpuspaulus" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: women/wives and submission
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 05:17:47 -0700
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I was just reading Elain Pagels "The Politics of Paradise:
Augustine's Exegesis of Genesis 1-3 Versus That of John Chrysostom" in the
Harvard Theological Review vol. 78 no 1-2 (1985) and it made me think of a
couple of questions I would like some comment on. Pagels comments that the
early church (up to Augustine) interpreted the image of God in Genesis 1 to mean
that God gave man (women included) the moral freedom to rule oneself. In
light of this interpretation and that woman's submission to man was pronounced
after the fall (Ge. 3:16), is it likely that the women in Ephesus interpreted
Paul's teachings that we constitute a new creation in such a way that they
concluded that they no longer were subject to their husbands? Would this
relate to Eph. 5:21 and 1 Timothy 2:11-15?
Michael Abernathy
Lock Haven
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- women/wives and submission, Michael Abernathy, 10/28/1999
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