Sigountos, James GShank, Myron2019-09-252019-09-252017-01-301983http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/162794"Much literature has recently appeared on,the role of women in the Church. Despite the variety of viewpoints, they represent three basic approaches. The first of these, the traditional, maintains that there are culturally transcendent and normative Pauline prohibitions against women occupying certain roles in the Church. Another, the hermeneutical, is to assert that generally accepted herme- neutical principles indicate that these prohibitions were specific for Paul's cul- ture and not normative. The third course, the critical, is to assign one or more texts to deutero-Pauline authorship so as to save Paul from the charge of "male chauvinism.""engWith permission of the license/copyright holderchurchwomenEarly christianitywomen's Public rolesIntercultural and contextual theologiesGender and theologyFeminist theologiesBiblical TheologyBiblical hermeneutics, Interpretation of the BibleArticle