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.
Women and Worship at Corinth | The Lucy Peppiatt Interview
http://www.wipfandstock.com An interview with Lucy Peppiatt regarding 1 Corinthinas 11-14. In her book 'Women and Worship at Corinth' Lucy Peppiatt has submi...
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- Finally, after almost 2000 years of God allowing the church to be deceived about what what Paul actually said, someone who can actually set us straight. The gift of being able to take clear, indicative meaning and make it mean the exact opposite is not a gift to be taken lightly.
- Galileo's contemporaries said the same thing about him some 400 years ago. While Lucy's interpretations may not be correct, that needs to be shown by logic and critical thinking based on Scriptural evidence rather than irony. I for one am glad that Galileo did not give up!
- I have not yet read her book, but I am looking forward to doing so. Her argument seems to track with many of the things that I have been thinking and preaching for years about the radical equality and freedom that Paul teaches and that the Pauline churches wrestled with. There are no quotation- or punctuation-marks in Paul's letters; and so he had to rely on the messenger, whom he sent to deliver them and whom he had instructed in rendering a properly nuanced reading. Paul's written words were never meant for silent publication; they were rather an extension of his oral proclamation. In the exigencies of such an oral culture, there are reasons to think that some of his statements, seemingly bearing "indicative meaning", may in fact have been read either interrogatively or ironically within a discourse with an imagined and, in the case of the Corinthian correspondence, authoritarian male interlocutor using the "oral-literary style" of diatribe, which Paul sometimes resorts to; e.g. Galatians 3:1-4. (David E. Aune, THE WESTMINSTER DICTIONARY OF NEW TESTAMENT & EARLY CHRISTIAN RHETORIC, s.v. "diatribe").