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Prof. Dr. Armin Baum, Gießen: Should women be silent in church? "Your wives should be silent in church meetings..." (1 Cor. 14:33b-35) What is timelessly valid about this statement by Paul? What role does the ancient context play? The apostle Paul evidently required Christian women in Corinth to remain silent in church meetings. If they had questions, they should ask their husbands at home. In another chapter of the same letter, however, Paul quite naturally assumed that women prayed and spoke prophetically in church meetings (1 Cor. 11). How do these two apparently contradictory statements fit together? Prof. Dr. Armin Baum (Freie Theologische Hochschule, Gießen) shows in his lecture that this commandment of silence for women can only be properly understood against the background of the culture of the time. The Greco-Roman and Jewish cultures of the ancient world were in many ways different from our present-day Western culture. The second part of the lecture deals with the question of whether Christians who want to take the Bible seriously should still remain silent. How can the method of contextualization open up helpful ways of dealing with this topic? _______________________________________________________________________________________ believethinking is an initiative of... Tobias Becker, Community Pastor ESG (Ludwigsburg) Dr. Dominik Klenk, publicist and publisher (Basel) Konrad Schmid, filmmaker (Heimsheim) Daniel Wilken, Venue Church (Ludwigsburg) Prof. Dr. Dr. Roland Werner, theologian and linguist (Zinzendorf Institute, Marburg) Support Donations to support the believethinking project should be transferred to the Zinzendorf Institute with the note "believethinking". A donation receipt will be sent at the beginning of the following year. Thank you very much! Our account details: Recipient: Zinzendorf Institute IBAN DE36 5335 0000 0010 0057 44 SWIFT-BIC: HELADEF1MAR Purpose: glaubendenken Contact Zinzendorf Institute Steinweg 12 35037 Marburg [email protected]