Women in Ministry (and in the home)
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 3:08 pm
I went and re-listened to Steve's lecture on this but found it a bit less robust than I recall. It is very relevant to the UMC denominational split issues. Superficially, the issues are largely around human sexuality and ordination, marriage, and so forth. But, more fundamentally they are about how one views scripture, etc.
Many/most of the traditional congregations are seeking to join new denominations which do not support homosexuality as normative but do support women in ministry, etc. So, essentially they can't fellowship with and be in submission to a church which interprets Scripture in a "progressive" way to support homosexuality because of how the contextualize the relevant passages.
But to my view, they seem to me, themselves, to interpret the gender role passages in much the same way as the progressives do with the homosexuality passages. So, it bothers me that anyone who can read scriptures so selectively to support egalitarianism shouldn't be so dogmatic about homosexuality.
Most "egalitarians" have pretty weak arguments just pointing to contextualization and the unique circumstances of the time, etc. But Ben Witherington is a deep thinker and at least comes at this from a very learned/studied position. The following article summarizes his position.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandc ... -biblical/
Thoughts?
Many/most of the traditional congregations are seeking to join new denominations which do not support homosexuality as normative but do support women in ministry, etc. So, essentially they can't fellowship with and be in submission to a church which interprets Scripture in a "progressive" way to support homosexuality because of how the contextualize the relevant passages.
But to my view, they seem to me, themselves, to interpret the gender role passages in much the same way as the progressives do with the homosexuality passages. So, it bothers me that anyone who can read scriptures so selectively to support egalitarianism shouldn't be so dogmatic about homosexuality.
Most "egalitarians" have pretty weak arguments just pointing to contextualization and the unique circumstances of the time, etc. But Ben Witherington is a deep thinker and at least comes at this from a very learned/studied position. The following article summarizes his position.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandc ... -biblical/
Thoughts?