RE: [asa] Gender Roles & Genesis Interpretation

Hi Christine,

Our Southern Baptist church allows women to serve as deacons (deaconesses?).
Though none have yet become one, they are welcomed. The deacon approval
committee will often have certain prominent women as the more active
members.

I don't know, however, if any Gen. 2 or 3 scripture is used. The NT seems
to have enough to justify the allowance of women (e.g. Romans 16). Phoebe
and Priscilla are examples. I think the Greek used to describe the service
of Phebe(KJV) is diakonos, which is translated "deaconess" in the RSV,
though most often translated "servant".

George C.

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Dennis Venema
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 6:54 PM
To: Christine Smith; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] Gender Roles & Genesis Interpretation

Christine,

I can heartily recommend the work of Pauline Scholar Gordon Fee on this
issue - his commentary on I Cor covers this well.

Some of Gordon's thoughts on the subject can be found here:

http://www.cbeinternational.org/new/free_articles/free_articles.shtml

dennis

On 5/9/08 1:15 PM, "Christine Smith" <christine_mb_smith@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was pondering the role of women in church with
> respect to the New Testament texts (a particularly
> thorny question for me, as I don't like the idea of
> writing off such texts as merely "the culture of the
> time"), and as I reread them, the thought occurred to
> me--if we understand Genesis 2 & 3 in
> mythological/theological terms, rather than strictly
> "literal" or "historical" terms, how then does this
> affect our interpretation of (in particular) I
> Corinthians 11:2-16 and I Timothy 2: 8-15. And
> conversely, how should these NT texts affect our
> interpretation of Genesis? Just curious on what your
> insights might be into this...thanks!
>
> In Christ,
> Christine (ASA member)
>
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