As Christ Submits to the Church: A Biblical Understanding of Leadership and Mutual Submission
Overview
Does Christ submit to the church? Should Christians submit to each other? What about husbands and wives? In this volume, theologian Alan Padgett offers a fresh look at the ethics of submission, gender roles, and servant leadership in the New Testament. Through his careful interpretation of Paul’s letters and broader New Testament teaching, the author shows how Christ’s submission to the church models an appropriate understanding of gender roles and servant leadership. As Christ submits to the church, so all Christians must submit to, serve, and care for one another. Padgett articulates a creative approach to mutual submission and explores its practical outworking in the church today, providing biblical and ethical affirmation for equality in leadership
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- Offers a fresh look at the ethics of submission, gender roles, and servant leadership
- Shows how Christ’s submission to the church models an understanding of gender roles and servant leadership
- Explores the practical outworking of gender roles in the church today
- Living Gospel: Evangelical Approaches to Gender Roles
- Mutual Submission and Christian Leadership: The Bible and the Ethics of Roles
- Mutual Submission or Male Domination?: Christ and Gender Roles In Ephesians and 1 Corinthians
- Mission and Submission: 1 Peter and the Pastoral Epistles
- Headship and Head-Coverings: 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 From the Bottom Up
- Submission Today: Hunger and Thirst for Justice
Top Highlights
“To be a leader, for Jesus, is to take up the role of a slave toward ‘the least of these.’ Those in power use that power not for their own gain or security, but radically give it away in love and service to the other, especially to the people they are leading.” (Page xv)
“The viewpoint I will call ‘man-centered leadership,’ also known as complementarian theology, has its roots not purely in Scripture but in the patriarchal philosophies of Greece and Rome, passed on in Christian circles even unto the present generation.” (Page 2)
“Complementarian theology is just as revisionist, just as influenced by modern thought, as the egalitarian view it paints as new and unbiblical.” (Page 10)
“submission means just what we might normally think—namely, an involuntary obedience to an external authority” (Page 38)
“yes, Christ did submit to the church. In his earthly ministry, humiliation, passion, and crucifixion” (Page 55)
As Christ Submits to the Church is an insightful, compelling, and much-needed work, not only on the specific issue of women in leadership, but also on the distinctive nature of Christian leadership in general. Combining theological and exegetical skills, Padgett has given us a scholarly yet broadly accessible book that moves us beyond some of the impasses that have bogged down the discussion on this hot topic. Regardless of one’s stance on the women-and-leadership issue, As Christ Submits to the Church is a must-read for all who care about Christlike leadership.
—Gregory A. Boyd, senior pastor, Woodland Hills Church, St. Paul, Minnesota
Exploring critical questions regarding biblical interpretation, As Christ Submits to the Church offers a thoroughly Christian understanding of submission and service within marriage and the church. Alan Padgett opens much sky over the heads of those engaged in the evangelical conversation on gender and authority. This book is well worth our time and attention.
—Mimi Haddad, president, Christians for Biblical Equality
- Title: As Christ Submits to the Church: A Biblical Understanding of Leadership and Mutual Submission
- Author: Alan G. Padgett
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Theology; Sex role › Biblical teaching; Submissiveness › Biblical teaching; Servant leadership › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9781441249227, 9780801027000, 1441249222, 0801027004
- Resource ID: LLS:SCHRSBTSCHRCH
- Resource Type: Monograph
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