Analysis Of Discovering Biblical Equality By Gordon Fee

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Gordon Fee, along with other well-respected theologians would disagree with Grudem’s interpretation for several reasons. Fee remarks in Discovering Biblical Equality, “This is both its [κεφαλη’s] first occurrence in Paul’s writings and its only appearance where “the body” is not mentioned or assumed. Later when Paul speaks of Christ as head it is not a metaphor for lordship but for the supportive, life-giving role that... the head was understood to have in relationship to the.. body.” Fee goes on to paraphrase Cyril who discusses how by nature, we are of our prospective head. Also here Paul is not directly discussing the church, but individual men. To Fee, the needed elements to read κεφαλη as authority over are not present, so it is open to reinterpretation.
It is difficult to read out the authority overtones and language used in verse three, “head” in the western mind is quickly associated with the person in authority over us, the one we report to. But with the typical “authority” reading of this text in our culture comes ideas of …show more content…

In verse 13 Paul addresses women prophesying with their hair done the wrong way and says even nature approves this basic rule. Nature here most likely is referring to “Long established… customs” because Paul would have been well aware of the long-haired Jewish Nazarites and long-haired Spartan soldiers Paul then in the following two verses tells the same story but with the genders flipped, now a man prophesying with unkempt long hair is a shame and disgrace to women because women who have long hair choose to put it up as a symbol of their authorities. s Schreiner also adds, “The wearing of a head covering by a woman is in accord with the God given sense that women and men are

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