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Women's Evangelical Commentary offers a complementarian perspective.

Review by La Shawn Barber | posted 2/02/2007 09:20AM

The Women's Evangelical Commentary: New Testament offers a conservative and complementarian perspective on Scripture by women, for women. For example, in Ephesians 5:22, where Paul exhorts wives to submit ...

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Shirley

Posted: February 08, 2007 1:18 AM


I'm not so sure that complimentarianism is keeping in line with the teaching of Jesus and the New Testament. Is this really what should happen when people are born again? Complimentarianism is primarily found in reformed theology is it not?. I don't here the term 'born again' very often in those circles.

pika	Posted: February 04, 2007 11:06 PM


Did the review get cut off? This is poor writing.

HM	Posted: February 04, 2007 10:02 PM

" But whatever your position on sex roles in family and in church, this is a worthy effort by true Proverbs 31 women, faithful and wise." Saying this to egalitarians is like telling Christians: "this book by atheists about living in a universe with no gods is a worthy effort." The response is "So what? what value to me are exhortations and interpretations based on a foundation which (I believe is) false?"

JH	Posted: February 04, 2007 11:32 AM


It drives me crazy when women who are obviously capable, intelligent people in and of themselves, such as the authors of said commentary, are presented as "so-and-so's wife". As though being Mr. Christian University President's wife is a credential far more telling than, say, amount of education or previous published works or career achievements or leadership in a local church!

Barbi Williams

Posted: February 03, 2007 7:52 PM


It is interesting and timely to note that the editor, Dorothy Patterson, is the wife of Paige Patterson, who just refused tenure to a Hebrew scholar because of her gender. Dorothy stays on staff because she "only teaches women-- " Or is it because she's more "submissive?" I'm not sure I'd care to waste my time on something so tainted at the outset.

TL	Posted: February 03, 2007 6:50 PM

It is not really clear why the reveiwer chose to call the conservative complementarian authors "true Prov. 31 women, faithful and wise". I challenge any complementarian to figure out how an egalitarian viewpoint makes any woman less of a "true" Proverbs 31 woman. Frankly, Proverbs 31 written by King Lemuel's mother, proves egalitarian values of equal honor and respect more than it proves complementarian "submission and headship".

KK	Posted: February 03, 2007 1:14 PM


The author of the review was only trying to honor these woman with a Biblical verse. We should all learn to encourage each other more through the word. Logically, it does not imply that egalitarians like myself are not living up to the reviewers biblical standard.

BH	Posted: February 02, 2007 8:26 PM


This review would have been fine, but the last sentence ruins it as an objective analysis.

MK	Posted: February 02, 2007 7:20 PM


This review comes across as an endorsement of the commentary's theological perspective, rather than its quality of content and communication. That the authors are held up as "Proverbs 31 women" seems to say that those women who are egalitarians are "not" living up to the reviewers biblical standard.

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