Women ‘Isn’t it time to set women free?’ ‘Making Biblical Womanhood Gospel Truth’ ‘Our selective medieval memory’ ‘Sanctifying subordination’ ‘The beginning of patriarchy’ ‘The Cost of the Reformation for Evangelical Women’ ‘What if biblical womanhood doesn’t come from Paul?’ ‘Writing women out of the English Bible’ 1 Cor 11:3/Eph 5:23 – ‘Kephale’: ‘head’? ‘source’? ‘foremost’? 1 Corinthians 11 – was Paul quoting his opponents? 1 Corinthians 14:34 – ‘Women should be silent in the churches’ 1 Peter 3:7 – ‘The weaker partners’ 1 Timothy 2:11f – ‘I do not allow woman to teach or exercise authority over a man’ 50 politically incorrect thoughts for men – 1 50 politically incorrect thoughts for men – 4 50 politically incorrect thoughts for men – 5 50 politically incorrect thoughts for men – 3 Biblical complementarity Does the end of slavery spell the end of patriarchy? Equal, but different Galatians 3:28 – ‘All one in Christ Jesus’ Gender issues in 1 Timothy – help from Artemis Genesis 1:27 – a hint of male headship? Genesis 3:16b – ‘Your desire shall be for your husband’ God’s good design for men and woman God’s good plan for men and women: our unfinished business How Jesus affirmed women Joanna = Junia? Male headship before the Fall Male-female differentiation in egalitarian teaching May we speak of male and female roles? Men and women: what’s the difference? Paul and women’s ministry Romans 16:7 – ‘Junia…well known to the apostles’ Spiritual authority of women in the Bible The Bible and women’s ministry The Bible, women, and authority The biological basis for gender-specific behaviour The dignity of women in the Pauline epistles The Trinity and gender issues This is no way to have a theological debate What are biblical masculinity and femininity? Who misrepresented whom? Women in ministry – some resources