Paul's view of women and the ironic implications

value discussion

Theology: Paul’s statement on sexuality was used to exclude women from Christian positions. But describing a “negative view of women” is a major understatement of the man who believed that women could have key roles in churches.

The Great Man: Paul had the knowledge and the word in his ability to craft letters. What he wrote and said later became the standard of Christian theology. In the painting “Paul Writing His Letters” by the Apostle Valentin de Boulogne (1619), the apostle is seated immersed in a desk. (Wikimedia Commons / Austin Frank Nielsen)