Wilson on Wright on Egalitarianism
In September of 2004, N.T. Wright presented a paper entitled "Women 's Service in the Church: The Biblical Basis," which you can read in its entirety here. Recently Doug Wilson reviewed this paper (which you can take a look at by clicking here) on his blog, and I think that it as well is worth a read. I know many people have a problem with one or both of these men, but I think this review by Wilson is a great example of how good Christian men can charitably disagree, while appreciating what each other has to offer. Let me know what you think of both.
posted by DrewDog at 1:00 PM
5 Comments:
You're gonna make me read the articles myself? I thought a blog was supposed to summarize and condense not assign me homework.
I'm basically summarizing Wilson's blog which is a summary of Wright's paper. this explains why it's so short- a summary of a summary. Perhaps if you were to write a summary of my summary you could simply write "stinks," and that would suffice.
Anyway, stop complaining and get to your homework!
stinks
Still reading...
I'm not a Greek expert (or amateur for that matter), but NT Wright should be in the Olympics for this gymnastic display on 1 Timothy 2:12:
"I’m not saying that women should teach men, or try to dictate to them; they should be left undisturbed. " - NT Wright
vs.
"But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet." - NASB
Either NT Wright has found something brand new or the rest of the translators have missed the boat completely.
Its also not clear to me that 1 Cor 11:1-16 is talking about the general assembly. Verse 18 begins "For, in the first place, when you come together as a church,..."
Otherwise, if women are explicitly forbidden from speaking in the church in 1 Cor 14, and permitted to speak (in the same sense) in the church in 1 Cor 11, we are bordering on contradiction.
You can probably turn these arguments into swiss cheese - please fire away.
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