Unveiling Paul's Women: Making Sense of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

Whether people realize it or not the ideas in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 have had a huge impact on the role of Christian women in the church through the centuries. These fifteen verses have shaped worship practices church structures church leadership marriages and even relationships between men and women in general. They have contributed to practices that have consistently placed women in a subordinate role to men and have been used to justify the idea that a woman should not occupy a leadership or teaching position without being under the authority or covering of a man. It is strange therefore that academics and pastors alike continue to note how confusing and difficult it continues to be to make sense of these very verses. In this little book Lucy Peppiatt not only highlights the problems associated with using this text to justify the subordination of women but offers a clear and plausible re-reading of the text that paints the apostle Paul as a radical visionary church planter who championed women in all forms of leadership. Lucy Peppiatt is an outstanding academic writer and leader. In the excellent Unveiling Pauls Women she offers sensible and insightful argument undergirded by rigorous scholarship. At last in her thesis the text finds a natural and logical flow. A flow thats consistent with what appears obvious from Pauls teaching and practice elsewhere in the New Testament. --Roger Ellis Global Coordinator of the 24-7 Boiler Room Network and Academy Director Unveiling Pauls Women is like Paracetamol Plus or Panadol ActiFast or Anadin Extra for some well-known theological headaches! She has treated us to a quick-acting bite-sized power-packed tablet-shaped wonder medicine for the weary wary or just curious. Prepare to end up inspired by honest and erudite wrestling with scripture and in the future make it a rule to get anything she writes and then share her books with friends. --Chris Tilling Graduate Tutor and Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies St. Mellitus College Im persuaded that Lucy Peppiatt is pushing us to significant improvement [in interpretation] when it comes to 1 Corinthians 11. --Scot McKnight Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament Northern Seminary Lisle IL Lucy Peppiatt is the Principal of Westminster Theological Centre and the author of Women and Worship at Corinth: Pauls Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians (2015).