Ask NT Wright Anything #6 Female church leadership, complementarity and marriage

2019-01-30T18:00:00

Tom answers questions on what the New Testament says about the role of women in church leadership. Does 1 Tim 2:13-15 forbid women from preaching? What does he make of complementarian vs egalitarian theology? How does he treat passages such as Ephesians 5: 22 ‘wives submit to your husband’?

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