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priesthood

Witherington’s NT ministry: is tradition trumping exegesis?

February 11, 2010

In a post today Ben Witherington repeats a long-standing Protestant argument about priesthood and the New Testament. For him the teaching of the Bible is obvious. The unbiblical nature of the larger part of Christianity in its hankering after priests is equally obvious. In this post I don’t want to engage with the larger theological [...]

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Rescuing priesthood from Witherington’s “perfectly clear” NT

October 26, 2009

Ben Witherington has a post up today on Why arguments against women in ministry aren’t biblical. I shall assume that in his discussions of the arguments offered by evangelicals on the basis of specific texts he knows what he is talking about. I find them rather bizarre but I imagine he must have those arguments [...]

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