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The jewellery and human remains discovered at a recent excavation in Northamptonshire shed light on the elite position of some newly-Christian women in seventh century England.
Women’s contributions to global Christianity are immense, but scholars’ understanding is hampered by limited data.
In the societies the Bible was written in, masculinity was the ideal. So it’s astonishing there are moments of gender subversion and gender diversity found in the Bible’s pages.
What people value in their God, they value in life. Today, this might mean men can conclude that if they are right, they, too, have the right to be dominating.
Evangelical Christian churches say a man’s authority is in God’s plan.
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Lecturer in Religion, York St John University
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Director of the Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy & Associate Professor, New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
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Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Murdoch University, Murdoch University
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Research Officer, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor, CQUniversity Australia
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Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
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Departmental Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Oxford
