1. Paul's View of Women in the Church
... cultural context, but he was sure that it would not look completely shocking or inappropriate. It certainly would have been highly offensive to many women and men to break cultural norms that were seen by them as God-ordained or Natural, as "natural- as it was in his culture that women have long hair and cover their heads (1 Corinthians 11), while ... by him to punish those who do wrong and to comment those who do right."" The type of female behavior or "good lives- considered appropriate was modest and silent. Certain types of speech and teaching the Gentile culture reserved for men on...
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