Historian Looks at 1 Timothy 2:11-14, Second Edition

In the controversy over the role of women in the church, complementarians routinely claim to be upholding the ';traditional' position. Like the little boy who declared that ';the emperor has no clothes,' J. G. Brown exposes the fallacies in this claim. The authentic traditional interpretation of passages such as 1 Timothy 2:1114 differs substantially from contemporary readings, whether egalitarian or hierarchist. Most prominent Protestant exegetesfrom Luther and Calvin through those in the early nineteenth centuryunderstood creation ordinances as foundational to the temporal world, not the church. An Historian Looks at 1 Timothy 2:1114 brings history and theology together in a fresh way, with startling implications for the ongoing debate.