Women and Slavery in the New Testament and Early Church: Dr. Lynn Cohick

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Lynn H. Cohick earned her PhD in NT and Christian Origins from the University of Pennsylvania. She is distinguished professor of NT at Houston Christian University, and director of the Houston Theological Seminary. She has written commentaries on Ephesians and Philippians, and books on women in the NT, including Christian Women in the Patristic World and Women in the World of the Earliest Christians. In this conversations, we talk about Lynn's latest research on freed female slaves in the New Testament world and how this shapes our reading of the household codes, and also the role and impact that women had on the church in the first few hundred years of Christianity. Register for the Austin conference on sexualtiy (Sept 17-18) here: https://www.centerforfaith.com/programs/leadership-forums/faith-sexuality-and-gender-conference-live-in-austin-or-stream-online Register for the Exiles 2 day conference in Denver (Oct 4-5) here: https://theologyintheraw.com/exiles-denver/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends I'm going to be in Austin, Texas, September 17th to 18th at Life Family Church,
0:05.2	doing a two-day conference on faith, sexuality, and gender. If you want to register for that conference,
0:09.4	you can go to center for faith.com, click on the events tab and you can go from there.
0:14.7	Also, October 4th to 5th,
0:16.7	we have our two day exiles of Babylon conference
0:19.4	in Denver, Colorado.
0:20.8	All the information is at theology in Dur rod.com. We are talking about
0:24.3	discipleship in this very volatile election year. We are talking about fake news
0:30.6	propaganda and healthy media consumption.
0:32.8	We're talking about sexuality after purity culture,
0:36.2	and it's going to be a doozy,
0:38.3	so you're not going to want to miss that conference,
0:39.5	I can't wait for it.
0:40.1	So all the information for the exile conference is at is at Theology Raw.com, the Sexuality
0:43.9	conference in Austin Center for Faith.com. My guest today is Dr. Lynn Kohick who
0:48.6	earned her PhD in New Testament and Christian origins from the University of Pennsylvania.
0:54.0	She is currently distinguished professor of New Testament at Houston Christian University
0:59.6	and director of the Houston Theological Seminar.
1:02.4	She's written a bunch of books, an excellent commentary on Ephesians,
1:06.0	and another excellent commentary on Philippians.
1:09.0	She's written books on women in the New Testament, including this one right here, which is women in the world of the earliest Christians
1:17.6	illuminating ancient ways of life. She is one of my favorite New Testament scholars. She's absolutely incredible.
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