new church life: march / april 2014
more general order that exists between masculine and feminine.
At the beginning, the passage speaks about a man and wife: “the wife’s
wisdom is not possible with the man,” and vice versa. Then the teaching
broadens to an observation about the masculine and feminine natures
generally: “It is masculine to perceive from the understanding, and feminine
to perceive from love,” and so on. Then at the end the focus switches back to
a marriage relationship and reiterates that “the wife’s wisdom is not possible
with the man, nor the man’s rational wisdom with the wife; nor is man’s moral
wisdom possible with women so far as it partakes of his rational wisdom.”
There may be differences of opinion on how all this applies to the question
of women in the priesthood, but the fact that it does apply – or at least that it is
not irrelevant to the conversation – seems clear.
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the noah challenge
Hollywood loves a good story – especially one that lends itself to spectacular
special effects and promises box-office appeal. So another biblical epic, Noah,
was scheduled to open in American theaters on March 28.
With a cast led by Russell Crowe, J