read this book!
I've just begun reading William J Webb's Slaves, Women & Homosexuals and cannot believe how good it is already.
Oddly enough, this book has already been influential in my life, even though I've been meaning to read it for a couple of years...
I heard the basic premise described by Rob Bell (I think) back in 2003 at the 1st Emergent convention... It was that description of a "redemptive movement hermeneutic" that got me rethinking, or at least ready and able to rethink, gender issues as regards to leadership.
I'll blog more about it later, perhaps. But for now, if you have never read it, you need to, particularly if you are planting/leading churches in a culture where not having women in leadership is a huge stumbling block.
This book, written by someonw who clearly loves Scripture and wants to be true to God's Word, will help you to think through interpretive issues, wrestle with texts and help you to see the redemptive arc in many of the passages we think of as "regressive."
I also want to recommend Sarah Sumner's Men and Women in the Church which was hugely influential in our community as we wrestled through the leadership question. Many read it, most loved it :)
Oddly enough, this book has already been influential in my life, even though I've been meaning to read it for a couple of years...
I heard the basic premise described by Rob Bell (I think) back in 2003 at the 1st Emergent convention... It was that description of a "redemptive movement hermeneutic" that got me rethinking, or at least ready and able to rethink, gender issues as regards to leadership.
I'll blog more about it later, perhaps. But for now, if you have never read it, you need to, particularly if you are planting/leading churches in a culture where not having women in leadership is a huge stumbling block.
This book, written by someonw who clearly loves Scripture and wants to be true to God's Word, will help you to think through interpretive issues, wrestle with texts and help you to see the redemptive arc in many of the passages we think of as "regressive."
I also want to recommend Sarah Sumner's Men and Women in the Church which was hugely influential in our community as we wrestled through the leadership question. Many read it, most loved it :)
2 Comments:
I was going to suggest you read this book, after I read your top post about women in leadership. Then I scolled down and saw this post! I finished it a few months ago and loved it(the Webb book that is). I am a female who serves as an elder in our church. It was so concise and the whole priniciple of Redemptive movement hermenutic was absolutely wonderful. Enjoy the read.
Oh goody! I am so glad you are reading this. I remember discussing it with you over a year ago, when I was hanging out at the Hyatt house one night, and before I ever visited evergreen. This book made all the difference for me in sorting out culture bound vs. transcendent concepts in scripture.
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