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October 02, 2006
Scot McKnight on the hermeneutics of women and ministry...
Scot McKnight has another great post in his series on Women and Ministry. In his latest post Woman and Ministry: Hermeneutics, Scot says,
Would anyone disagree that slavery is overturned, not by looking at passages that seem to affirm it (say Philemon), but by looking at passages that provide a more central, theological core that transcends even what was permissible in the Bible? Say, Galatians 3:28. What brought Gal 3:28 to the fore was not simple exegesis, but the hard-core reality of the despicable nature of slavery and the ends to which some were taking it. There is ongoing development within the pages of the Bible; does that not keep on going in the Church? What is sometimes only in introductory form becomes more central over time.
Today let's keep the discussion to this hermeneutical point: that, at times, we learn some practices rooted in some texts are overturned by the deeper implications of other texts.
women in ministry, theology, Scot McKnight
Posted by rhett at October 2, 2006 11:34 PM
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