S2 Ep1013: #1013 - Women, the Gender of God, and the Warning Passages in Hebrews: Dr. Amy Peeler

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Amy Peeler is a rock star New Testament scholar with a Ph.D from Princeton and who’s been teaching at Wheaton college for over 10 years. Amy is also the author of several scholarly books including You Are My Son: The Family of God in the Epistle to the Hebrews (2014), Hebrews: An Introduction and Study Guide (2020), and the forthcoming Women and the Gender of God (Oct 2022). In this conversation, we talk about her book Women and the Gender of God, wrestling with questions related to God’s non-sexed existence yet gendered revelation (if…that’s even the best way of framing it). God is not male; but he reveals himself as…himself, and Father, and King, and with He/Him pronouns. What does this mean? How should we think of God? Is he male, a man, masculine, or do these categories all fall short of God.

Oh, and we also wrestle with the notorious warning passages in Hebrews; namely, Hebrews 6 and 10. Dr. Peeler walks us through the Greek text and theological context of these difficult passages.

Learn more about Dr. Peeler from her personal website: http://amypeeler.com/index.html

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rock. If you would like to
0:03.2	support to show you, go to patreon.com forward slash theology in the rock and become part of the
0:07.7	patreon only theology in the rock community. All the info is on that link. My guest today is Dr.
0:15.2	Amy Peeler. Amy is a associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. She has an
0:22.0	MDiv and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. She's the author of several books including
0:27.3	You are my son, the family of God, and the pistol to the Hebrews. Hebrews in an introduction,
0:32.8	a study guide, and her fourth coming book Women and the Gender of God, which is what we talked about
0:39.2	for the first half of this podcast. The second half, we actually wandered back into her primary
0:45.2	area of expertise, the book of Hebrews, and specifically the warning passages, at least two of the
0:51.6	main warning passages in Hebrews chapter six and Hebrews chapter 10. And that was fascinating to
0:59.2	hear her perspective as one who's an expert in the book to help unpack what's going on in these
1:05.6	somewhat troubling passages. So please welcome to the show for the first time the one or only Dr.
1:10.5	Amy Peeler.
1:21.2	All right, hey friends, I'm here with Dr. Amy Peeler from Wheaton College. You've been there
1:27.0	just around 10 years, right? That's right, yes, and a very good place to be. I'm so grateful for
1:34.1	my work with students here. Everything I hear, like with the faculty that I know there, they really
1:38.8	love, they love the school, but they always rave about, yeah, the student body, they say they're
1:44.1	just so fun to work with. Absolutely. I never have to, they have to take my class, they have to take
1:50.4	New Testament, but they also really want to be there. So we have quite the grand adventures,
1:56.1	we go through the text together because they're really all in. That's great. Do you teach, I know
2:00.9	your expertise is in Hebrews, I would imagine you teach more than just Hebrews. That's right.
2:05.9	Yeah, so we all teach the New Testament intro, and I truly love that because then I get majors
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