Contemporary theological accounts of gender—complementarianism and egalitarianism as previously outlined—serve as part background to my own proposed doctoral research: One Flesh: A Literary and Socio-Rhetorical Study of the Pauline (and Deutero-Pauline) Marriage Texts.[1] Expressed more simply, I am exploring the apostle Paul’s writings about marriage with reference to their first-century social setting. Given the intersection...Read More

The decades-long gender debate within evangelicalism shows few signs of abating and the stakes remain high. For complementarians the plain meaning of Scripture in prohibiting women from certain leadership roles in the church/home is clear. To cross this line is to call the very authority of the Bible into question. Likewise, much is at stake...Read More

Have you engaged with the best version of egalitarian theology? Undertaking my theological education was an exercise in examining one’s assumptions and “returning to the sources” (to quote the Reformation Humanists). It is all too easy, I have discovered, to argue against a strawman. I recall one lecturer saying that we should be able to...Read More

Hermeneutics is the formal term for the art and science of interpretation. The hermeneutical circle refers to the process of understanding a text—the interaction between the parts and the whole, along with the complex interplay between text and reader. In fact, to interpret a text assumes a certain internal hermeneutical stability within oneself—a sense of...Read More