Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul's Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians

Lucy Peppiatt

Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul's Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cascade Books
Country
United States
Published
25 March 2015
Pages
160
ISBN
9781498201469

Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul’s Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians

Lucy Peppiatt

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Making sense of Paul’s arguments in 1 Corinthians 11-14 regarding both the role of women in public worship and the value of tongues and prophecy for the unbeliever has long posed challenges for any lay reader or scholar. Despite numerous explanations offered over the years, these passages remain marked by inconsistencies, contradictions, and puzzles. Lucy Peppiatt offers a reading of 1 Corinthians 11-14 in which she proposes that Paul is in conversation with the Corinthian male leadership regarding their domineering, superior, and selfish practices, including coercing the women to wear head coverings, lording it over the have-nots at the Lord’s Supper, speaking in tongues all at once, and ordering married women to keep quiet in church. Through careful exegesis and theological comment this reading not only brings internal coherence to the text, but paints a picture of the apostle gripped by a vision for a new humanity in the Lord, resulting in his refusal to compromise with the traditional views of his own society. Instead, as those who should identify with the crucified Christ, he exhorts the Corinthians to make love their aim, and thus to restore dignity and honor to women, the outsider, and the poor.

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