The latest issue of Eikon is mostly a chapter-by-chapter review of the third edition of Discovering Biblical Equality.
I contributed an article on Galatians 3:28:
Naselli, Andrew David. “Yet Another Attempt to Justify What God Forbids: A Response to Cynthia Lang Westfall, ‘Male and Female, One in Christ.’” Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology 5.1 (2023): 32–39.
Here’s my phrase diagram of Galatians 3:26–29:
On the basis of Galatians 3:28, evangelical feminists (i.e., egalitarians) commonly argue against “hierarchy” in the church and home. That is, women may be pastors, and a wife and husband share equal authority without hierarchy—a wife should submit to her husband only in the same way that a husband should submit to his wife. For many evangelical feminists, Galatians 3:28 is a clear and transcultural text that we should start with and then interpret more obscure passages (like 1 Cor 11:2–16 and 1 Tim 2:9–15) in light of it.
In my article, I respond to yet another evangelical feminist argument based on Galatians 3:28—Cynthia Westfall’s new chapter that replaces Gordon D. Fee’s chapter on Galatians 3:26–29 in the two previous editions of Discovering Biblical Equality. I answer three questions:
- How does Cynthia Westfall’s chapter fit in the conversation about Galatians 3:28?
- How does Cynthia Westfall’s new chapter compare to Gordon Fee’s old chapter?
- Is Cynthia Westfall’s argument correct?
Related:
- Does Anyone Need to Recover from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood? A Review Article of Aimee Byrd’s Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
- Four Reasons to Read Rebekah Merkle’s Eve in Exile
- Women and Head Coverings: Explaining and Applying 1 Corinthians 11:2–16
- Katie Luther: A Biographical Sketch by Jenni Naselli
