Are Husbands the "Head" of Their Wives? The Meaning of Kephale, part 1: Preston Sprinkle

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 175 minutes

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Summary

I've been researching the meaning of the Greek word kephale ("head") for the last several months and I've been blogging about my findings over at theologyintheraw.com This podcast episode is the first (quite long) summary of how I understand the meaning of kephale in extra-biblical Greek literature; namely, the LXX, secular Greek literature, and the early church fathers. In the next episode, I'll work through the meaning of kephale in the book of Ephesians; specifically, its use in 1:22, 4:15, and especially 5:23. Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

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0:00.0	The Hello friends welcome back to another episode of Theology and Ra this is going to be a different sort of podcast for several reasons. Number one,
0:25.8	I do not have a guest on the show today. This is going to be a solo podcast where I'm going to
0:31.6	discuss my recent research on the meaning of
0:35.4	Kefalay which is translated head and a few well two really important contexts in the new testament which I'll get to in a second.
0:44.3	First Corinthians is 11-3 and Eferesians 523. So this is part of my ongoing
0:52.4	research project on the question of women in church leadership.
0:58.4	If you're, I know a lot of you are familiar that I'm in the middle of this massive kind of research project that will take me about three to four years.
1:06.8	I'm at least two years in now into this research project and some of you have been following along and are eagerly
1:14.9	waiting to see where I land so let me just give you the super brief background I
1:18.9	was raised very strongly complimentarian only men can occupy positions of church leadership including teaching preaching
1:27.7	any pretty much anything kind of from a stage of the church that that's reserved for men only that's the background like I'm coming
1:34.2	from like a lot of you but over the years I realize that there's a lot of people I
1:39.7	respect a lot of biblical scholars I respect that are solid evangelical believers who believe in the authority of scripture who are who do not hold to that view and there's not just two views like
1:52.0	Combinarian egalitarian there's various shades of each of those perspectives.
1:56.3	You know, I was on the far side of the Complementarian side of things growing up.
2:00.8	I, that's the view I sort of just absorbed growing up but I really
2:05.6	early on admitted like I haven't studied this out like I read the Bible through that lens and
2:11.6	the verses as I read them in English seemed to fit that viewpoint and I but I never really dug into the scholarly debates
2:19.6	so I would say maybe like 15 years ago. I started to stop calling myself a
2:25.2	Complementarian and I didn't call myself an egalitarian. I just said I haven't
2:28.9	studied this enough to have a strong opinion one way or the other.
2:33.2	And for the last several years, I've been,
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