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january 2012 equality press home about the logic of equality the difference between a and not a equality press entries rss comments rss pages about the logic of equality the difference between a and not a archives march 2014 august 2012 june 2012 january 2012 october 2011 september 2011 july 2011 october 2009 august 2009 march 2009 february 2009 september 2008 august 2008 june 2008 may 2008 april 2008 march 2008 february 2008 meta create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com f f bruce on galatians 3 28 posted on january 31 2012 by adam i ve always appreciated f f bruce s comments on galatians 3 28 w a meeks thinks that paul is here quoting a baptismal reunification formula which envisaged the restoration of a pristine androgynous image but paul himself is not concerned with any such fantasy he is concerned with practical church life in which men and women like jews and gentiles slaves and free persons are here and now fellow members it is not their distinctiveness but their inequality of religious role that is abolished in christ jesus whereas paul s ban on discrimination on racial or social grounds has been fairly widely accepted au pied de la lettre there has been a tendency to restrict the degree to which there is male and female thus it has been argued that these words relate only to the common access of men and women to baptism with its introduction to their new existence in christ true paul may have had in mind that circumcision involved a form of discrimination between men and women which was removed when circumcision was demoted from its position as religious law whereas baptism was open to both sexes indiscriminately but the denial of discrimination which is sacramentally affirmed in baptism holds good for the new existence in christ in its entirety no more restriction is implied in paul s equalizing of the status of male and female in christ than in his equalizing of the status of jew and gentile or of slave and free person if in ordinary life existence in christ is manifest openly in church fellowship then if a gentile may exercise spiritual leadership in church as freely as a jew or a slave as freely as a citizen why not a woman as freely as a man in other spheres in deed the distinction which ceased to be relevant in the church fellowship might continue to be observed in roman law the distinction between slave and free person remained in the family the cooperation of husband and wife or father and mother depend as it still does on the distinction between them but superiority and inferiority of status or esteem could have no place ithe society whose founder laid it down that among his followers whoever would be first must be slave of all mk 10 44 how paul allowed the principle of no male and female to operate in practice may be seen for example in his appreciation of the philippian women who labored side by side with him in the gospel phil 4 3 or his recognition of the right of women to pray and prophesy in church the veil being the symbol of their authority paul states the basic principle here if restrictions on it are found elsewhere in the pauline corpus as in 1 cor 14 34f or 1 tim 2 11f they are to be understood in relation to gal 3 28 and not vice versa attempts to find canon law in paul or base canon law on paul should be forestalled by a consideration of paul s probable reaction to the very idea of canon law nigtc 1982 189 90 filed under verses 1 comment calendar january 2012 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 oct jun complementarians cbmw s blog denny burk egalitarians christian for biblical equality god s word to women men and women together rebecca merrill groothuis the cbe scroll good reads equal in being unequal in role biblical equality statement of faith blog at wordpress com wp designer subscribe subscribed equality press sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy equality press subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar design a site like this with wordpress com get started