#594: Loving the Good, Considering the Permissible
Why ordering our questions matters.
The New Testament does not explicitly prohibit women priests. There are (broadly) two different responses we might have to this fact: we might infer from it that Paul’s inclusion of being a ‘one-woman man’ in 1 Timothy 3:12 lays down a norm for the church to follow, or we might conclude that the church has the freedom to do otherwise. The latter route i…
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