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Gift_from_God
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Most Catholics I’ve met support women’s rights like teaching and running for political office (I hope they don’t support abortion though) but this passage really confuses me. Can someone expalin it?
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Elvenwarrior
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There’s quite a bit of misunderstanding on the Church’s view of women. This article from This Rock magazine may be useful:
catholic.com/thisrock/1996/9607fea1.asp
It’s not the most eloquent argument I’ve heard (mostly because it covers so much ground, it is pretty well written overall), but I think it’ll be helpful.
C.S. Lewis (an Anglican technically) also makes a good explanation of it in Mere Christianity under Book III: Christian Morality. I could look up the page number if you like.
I hope that answers some questions, it’s more general than that one passage.
catholic.com/thisrock/1996/9607fea1.asp
It’s not the most eloquent argument I’ve heard (mostly because it covers so much ground, it is pretty well written overall), but I think it’ll be helpful.
C.S. Lewis (an Anglican technically) also makes a good explanation of it in Mere Christianity under Book III: Christian Morality. I could look up the page number if you like.
I hope that answers some questions, it’s more general than that one passage.
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06convert
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It seems like Paul (the author) is trying to correct some specific worship problems in his community. It seems like he is confronting issues that exist both among men and women starting at verse 8.
Although Paul may have decided that women should have no authority in that particular assembly at that particular time, I’m pretty sure that he didn’t mean it for all women for all time. It’s more likely that women were seeking to teach or take authority before first learning their faith for themselves.
Another possiblity was that this was an attempt to combat gnosticism at that time. In 1st Timothy Chapter 5 you read a bit more about some issues they were having with women. In certain gnostic circles women were upheld and given power.
Although Paul may have decided that women should have no authority in that particular assembly at that particular time, I’m pretty sure that he didn’t mean it for all women for all time. It’s more likely that women were seeking to teach or take authority before first learning their faith for themselves.
Another possiblity was that this was an attempt to combat gnosticism at that time. In 1st Timothy Chapter 5 you read a bit more about some issues they were having with women. In certain gnostic circles women were upheld and given power.
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06convert
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I also forgot to mention that the Epistles are like teaching guides for the next generation of pastors. 1st Timothy was written by Paul to his “apprentice” Timothy who had a ministry in Ephesus. 1st Timothy was, I’m sure, specific to the Ephesus ministry and not the entire world or the entire Church. As I mentioned above Ephesus had many specific concerns like the gnostic movement at the time.
The Epistles include instructions on how worshipping and organization within the Church should be conducted.
So when we read them it’s good to keep in mind the context for which they were written.
The Epistles include instructions on how worshipping and organization within the Church should be conducted.
So when we read them it’s good to keep in mind the context for which they were written.
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