1. R. Paul Stevens,
Married for Good, p.113.
2. Robert C. Willamson,
Marriage and Family Relations (New York, 1966), p.322.
3. Charles R. Swindoll,
Strike the Original March (Portland, Oregon, 1980), p.42.
4. Quoted in Margaret M. Poloma and T. Neal Ciarland,
“The married Professional Woman: A Study in Tolerance of Domestication,” Journal of Marriage and the Family (August 1971), p.533.
5. Elsielise Thorpe,
“But Women Are the Favored Sex,” Reader’s Digest (May 1972), p.82.
6. Kay Ebeling,
“The Failure of Feminism,” Newsweek (Nuovember 19, 1990), p.9.
7. Among the writers representing this position are Rosemary Radford Ruether, Elizabeth Schussler Fiornza, Adela Yabro Collins, Mary Daly, Josephine Ford, Albertus Magnus McGrath, Phyllis Trible and George Tavard.
8. Some of the representives of the Evangelical Feminist approach ire Gilbert Bilezikian, Mary J. Evans, Letha Scanzomi and Nancy Hardesty, Paul K Jewett, Patricia Gundry, Virginia Mollenkott, Roth A. Tucker, Richard N. Longeneker, Berkeley and Alvera Mickelson, David M. Scholer and Aida Besancon Spencer.
9. Among the large number of writers supporting the Biblical feminist position, the following may be selected as representatives: Stephen Clark, Susan T. Foh. James B. Hurley, George W. Knight, Wayne Grudem, Douglas J. Moo, and Charles Caldwell Ryrie.
10. See Philip Barton Payne,
“Respose to Berkeley and Alvera Mickelsen, Chapter What Does Kephale mean in the New Testament?” in Women, Authority and the Bible, ed. Alvera Mickelsen (Downers Grove, Illinois, 1986), pp.118-132: Richard and Joyce Boldrey,
Chauvinist or Feminist? Paul’s View of Women (Grand Rapids, MI, 1976), p.34; Margaret Howe,
Women and Church Leadership (Grand Rapids, MI, 1982), p.60: F. F. Bruce, 1 and 2 Corinthians (London, 1971), p.248.; Letha Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty,
All We’re Meant to Be: A Biblical Approach to Women’s Liberation (Waco, Texas, 1975), pp.30-31, 100.
11. Letha Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty,
All We’re Meant to Be, p.100.
12. Ibid., p.110.
13. Stephen Bedale,
“The Meaning of Kephale in the Pauline Epistles,” Journal of Theological Studies 5 (1954): 211-215.
14. Set above n.10.
15. Berkeley and Alvera Mickelsen,
“What Does Kephle Mean in the New Testament?” in
Women, Authority and the Bible (n.4), pp.104-109; also by the same authors,
“Does Male Dominance Tarnish Our Translations?” Christianity Today (October 1979): 23-29;
“The ‘Head’ of the Ephistles,” Christianity Today (February 20, 1981): 20-23.
16. For it compelling refutation of the various arguments advanced for interpreting
“head” as
“source” or
“origin” rather than as
“ruler” or
“authority,” see Wayne Grudem,
“Does Kephale (‘head’) Mean ‘Source’ or ‘Authority Over’ in Greek Literature? A Survey of 2,336 Examples,” appendix 1, in Gevrge W. Knight III, The Relationship of Men and Women (Chicago, 1985), pp.49-80.
17. Berkeley and Alvera Mickelsen,
“Does Male Dominance Tarnish Our Translations?” Christianity Today (October 5, 1979): 23, 25; Stephen Bedale,
Journal of Theological Studies 5:211.
18. H. G. Liddell and Robert Scott, eds.,
A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed., with Supplement (Oxford, 1968), vol.1, p.944.
19. Stephen Bedale,
Journal of Theological Studies 5:212.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., p.213.
22. Berkeley and Alvera Mickelsen,
“What Does Kephle Mean in the New Testament?” (n.15), pp.105-106.
23. For the listing and quotation of each passage, see Wayne Gnudem (n. 16), pp.72-76.
24. Wrayne irudem (n. 16), p.62.
25. Plutiarch,
Table-Talk 692, D, 11.
26. Philo,
Life of Moses 2,30. For other examples see Wayne Grudem (n. 16), pp.73-74.
27. Stephen Bedale speaks of a
“virtual equation of kephale with arche” with giving one text to prove it (n.13), p.213.
28. Wayne Gnudem (n. 16), p.56.
29. Walter Bauer,
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, trans. and eds. William F. Arndt and F. Wilber Gingrich (Chicago, 1979), s.v.
“kephale,” p.430.
30. Heihrich Schlier,
“Kephale,” Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. Gerhard Kittel (Cirand Rapids, MI, 1974), vol.3,p.675.
31. Thidd., p.679.
32. Wayne inudem (n. 16), p.67.
33. Ibid., p.68. Grudem questions the meaning of
“source” in the two instances given by Liddell-Scott (Herodotus 4,91 and
Orphic Fragments 21a). See his reasoning on pp.57-61.
34. Berkeley and Alvera Mickelsen,
“Does Male Dominance Tarnish Our Translations?” Christianity Today, p.23.
35. Ruth A. Tucker,
“Respose to Berkeley and Alvera Mickelsen Chapter ‘What Does Kephale mean in the New Testament?’” in
Women, Authority and the Bible, ed. Alvera Mickelsen (Downers Grove, Illinois, 1986), pp.117.
36. James B. Hurley,
Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective (Grand Rapids, MI. 1981), p.166.
37. Stephen Bedale,
Journal of Theological Studies 5:214 (emphasis supplied).
38. For a general discussion of the use of the term, see Gerhard Delling,
“Hypotassso,” Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. Gerhard Kittel and Hergard Friedrich (Grand Raids, M, 1974), vol.8.p.41-46.
39. James B. Hurley,
Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective, p.142.
40. Elisabeth Elliot,
“Why I Oppose the Ordination of Women,” Christianity Today 19 (June 6, 1975): 14.
41. Ellen G. White,
The Adventist Home, p.117.
42. Weldon M. Hardenbrook,
What Every Man Should Know About Fatherhood (Arcadia, CA, 1987), p.13.
43. Laury and Nordis Christiansen,
The Christian Couple (Minneapolis, 1077), p.142.
44. David Phypers,
Christian Marriage in Crisis (Whitstable Kent, England, 1985), p.23.
45. Ellen G. White,
The Adventist Home, p.215.
46. Ibid., p.218.
47. Ibid.
48. Jay Adams,
Christian Living in the Home (Grand Rapids, 1972), p.77.
49. Lary and Nordis Christiansen,
The Christian Couple, p.151.
50. Ibid., p.158
51. Ibid., p.159.
52. Ellen G. White,
The Adventist Home, p.212.
53. James C. Dobson,
Straight Talk to Men and Their Wives (Dallas, 1984), p.153.
54. Elizabeth Achtemeier,
The Committed Marriage (Philadelphia, 1976), pp97-98.
55. Don Meredith,
Becoming One (Nashville, no date), p.120.
56. Darien B. Cooper,
You Can Be the Wife of a Happy Husband (Wheaton, Illiois, 1978), p.29.
57. Ibid., p.35.
58. Ibid., p.48.
59. Ibid., p.58.
60. Tim LaHaye,
How to Be Happy Though Married (Wheaton, Illiois, 1968), p.109.
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