Women's Prohibition to Teach Men

Abstract

"The impetus of this investigation into the meaning and application of PauPs prohibition for women to teach or exercise authority over men comes from the tension that seems to exist between this command as it has often been interpreted and the actual ministry of women in the NT Church. It is not my purpose in the present study to debate the basic meaning or the permanence of the apostle's words in 1 Tim 2:12. In my opinion this passage, along with a number of similar teachings concerning the relationship of man and woman in the church and in the home, is most naturally interpreted as prescribing an order between man and woman.1 I concur with Clark Pinnock's assessment that the plainest and simplest and therefore the best interpretation of these texts leads to some form of what has been popularly known as hierarchicalism.2"