Throughout Church history, women have been denied teaching and leadership positions for reasons based, often, on particular interpretations of three New Testament passages written by the apostle Paul (1 Tim. 2:11–15, 1 Cor. 14:34, Eph. 5:22). This workshop offers a better understanding of Paul's view of women by examining the social context of Paul's conversion and his work beside women and slaves such as Priscilla, Junia, Phoebe, Chloe, Nympha, and the Elect Lady. It also considers the theological significance of passages such as Galatians 3:28.

Workshop Session, 65 mins.
Side by Side: Gender from a Christian Perspective
CBE International Symposium, Bangalore, India

MIMI HADDAD (Ph.D., University of Durham) is president of Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE). She is a founding member of the Gender and Evangelicals Study Group at the Evangelical Theological Society, and served as the convener of the Gender Issue Group for the 2004 Lausanne III Conference for World Evangelization.