S9 Ep948: A Complementarian Reading of the New Testament: Dr. Tom Schreiner
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
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Summary
Complementarians believe that the Bible affirms the full equality of women and men, but that God only allows men to be elders and teachers in local churches. Dr. Tom Schreiner is one of the most well known and widely published (and respected) scholars who holds to this view. In this episode, Tom sums up his position and then responds to several counterarguments I throw at him.
Tom is James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Professor of Biblical Theology (1997) and Associate Dean of the School of Theology. Schreiner joined the Southern faculty in 1997 after serving 11 years on the faculty at Bethel Theological Seminary. He also taught New Testament at Azusa Pacific University. Schreiner, a Pauline scholar, is the author or editor of several books including, Romans, in the Baker Exegetical Commentary Series on the New Testament; Interpreting the Pauline Epistles; The Law and Its Fulfillment: A Pauline Theology of Law; The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Perseverance and Assurance; Still Sovereign: Contemporary Perspectives of Election, Foreknowledge, and Grace, co-edited with Bruce A. Ware; Women in the Church: A Fresh Analysis of I Timothy 2:9-15; Paul, Apostle of God’s Glory in Christ: A Pauline Theology.
https://www.sbts.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-r-schreiner/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends. I have on the show today a longtime friend slash mentor the one and only Dr. Thomas Schreiner |
| 0:06.7 | Tom got his MDiv and THM from Western Seminary PhD from Fuller Seminary. He's written like I think |
| 0:12.7 | 10,000 books or pretty much close to it. He wrote this massive commentary on Romans that I read |
| 0:18.9 | a long time ago. It just did an incredible commentary. He's written commentaries on first |
| 0:22.2 | second Peter Jude. He's written lots of stuff on Paul and his theology. One of the top most |
| 0:27.8 | renowned evangelical New Testament scholars. I wanted to have Tom on the show because he is kind of a |
| 0:34.0 | an expert on the so-called complimentarian view of women in, I don't like this phrase, women in |
| 0:41.5 | ministry, women in pastoral leadership. So he holds to a more conservative view on that. And I, |
| 0:47.5 | in most episodes that I've discussed this issue, I've had on people who don't agree with that |
| 0:52.5 | position. And in my effort to represent all of you as well, I said, hey, I want to have the |
| 0:57.9 | best representation of the complimentarian view. Some of you don't like it. Some of you are going to |
| 1:02.7 | hate it. Some of you are going to love it. And say, finally, you had somebody on to talk about this |
| 1:06.4 | anyway, wherever you're at, we all need to understand the view before we refute a view before |
| 1:12.0 | you're before you disagree with it, you got to understand it. So that's what we're going to do |
| 1:15.6 | today. It's an A to Z kind of whistle stopped tour through all of the relevant passages in the |
| 1:21.5 | new testament on this issue. Before we dive in, a couple of reminders that the theology in the |
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