This book explores women's role in the church today by examining what it was like for woman in the world into which Jesus was born.
As examples, they cite Jesus' teaching that "whoever does the will of God is my mother, and my brother, and my sister,"[2] and the proclamation that "in Christ there is no male nor female.
In the third century, the prolific defender of the orthodox church, Tertullian, wrote: "On account of [women]…even the Son of God had to die."
The Christian hermeneutic which sees Jesus as both respectful of his heritage and exercising a lordship over it is both compelled by the New Testament and visible to the piety today which esteems and cherishes all Scripture yet worships Christ the Lord above all.
Dr. Frank Stagg was Senior Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.