A Critique of the ‘Novel’ Contemporary Interpretation of 1Timothy2:9–15 Given in the Book, Women in the Church. Part II.

Abstract

In this second part of a two-part article the author offers a critique of the influential book Women in the Church: A Fresh Analysis of 1 Timothy 2:9–15 and proposes that the arguments from the creation orders and 1he ‘role’ of women and the use of language are different from those of the historic position and are unsound. He maintains that evangelical theology must be based on biblical teaching and theology as a whole rather than on proof-texts interpreted without proper reference to their context in a specific cultural situation. On this basis he outlines an alternative interpretation of the key passage.