Expedition 44

Today Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt have a conversation with Dr. Lucy Peppiatt about 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 and the issues surrounding head coverings.

Bio:

Dr. Peppiatt has been Principal at Westminster Theological Centre (WTC) since 2013. She teaches courses in Christian doctrine and in spiritual formation. Lucy holds bachelor’s degrees in both English and Theology, and completed an MA in Systematic Theology at King’s College, London, and a PhD through the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests are Christ and the Spirit, Charismatic theology, theological anthropology, discipleship, 1 Corinthians, and women in the Bible. Lucy is part of Crossnet Anglican Church in Bristol, which is led by her husband, Nick Crawley. Together, they have four sons and four daughters-in-law. 

Rhetorical Reading of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

Paul:

2 I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I handed them on to you. 3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the husband is the head of his wife, and God is the head of Christ. 

Male opponents: 

4 Any man who prays or prophesies with something on his head disgraces his head, 5 but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled disgraces her head—it is one and the same thing as having her head shaved. 

Paul:

6 For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, she should wear a veil. 

Male opponents: 

7 For a man ought not to have his head veiled, since he is the image and reflection of God; but woman is the reflection of man. 8 Indeed, man was not made from woman, but woman from man. 9 Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man. 10 For this reason a woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. 

Paul:

11 Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman. 12 For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman; but all things come from God. 13 Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head unveiled? 

Male opponents: 

14 Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair, it is degrading to him

Paul:

15 but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering. 16 But if anyone is disposed to be contentious—we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God. 

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Today Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt interview Dr. Nilay Saiya about his book “The Global Politics of Jesus”.

Bio:

Nilay Saiya is an associate professor or public policy and global affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a Yang visiting scholar in world Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. He is author of two books on religion and politics. He earned his PhD from the University of Notre Dame.

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Today Dr. Will Ryan and Paul Lazzaroni discuss a recent article on Expedition 44.com

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In this episode Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt have a conversation with Dr. Preston Sprinkle about his new book Exiles and how the church should relate to the governments and empires/kingdoms of the world as the people of God.

Dr. Preston Sprinkle is a biblical scholar, speaker, podcaster, a New York Times bestselling author, and is the co-founder and president of The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender. He earned a Ph.D. in New Testament from Aberdeen University in Scotland (2007). Preston loves talking and writing about hot-button cultural and theological issues with thoughtfulness, honesty and grace. He has written a dozen books including Erasing Hell (w/ Francis Chan), Nonviolence, Scandalous Grace, People to Be Loved, Living in a Gray World, and Embodied. Preston also hosts a popular bi-weekly podcast titled Theology in the Raw, where he engages in honest conversations with interesting people. 

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In this episode Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt have a conversation with Dr. J. Richard Middle about his book Abraham's silence: The Binding of Isaac, The Suffering of Job, and How to talk back to God.

BIO

J. Richard Middleton is Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary and Roberts Wesleyan University in Rochester, NY.

He has been President of the Canadian-American Theological Association (2011–2014) and President of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (2019–2021). Middleton has a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in a joint-degree program with the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto. 

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Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt continue the interview with Dr. Philip Payne. In this episode we discuss women in ministry in 1 Timothy and Titus, mutual submission in marriage, gender equality in the church, and how this theology affects our mission.

Dr. Philip Payne is the founder and president of ⁠Linguist’s Software⁠, and is a specialist in New Testament Studies. He is well known for his studies on New Testament Textual Criticism, the Parables of Jesus, and Man and Woman in the Teachings of Paul. He and his wife Nancy were missionaries in Japan with the Evangelical Free Church, where they ministered to students in the Kyoto Christian Studies Center and taught New Testament. He received his PhD in New Testament from Cambridge and has held many NT teaching positions at prominent Universities and Seminaries such as Cambridge, Gordon-Conwell, and Fuller.

Order the book: ⁠the Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God’s Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality. 

In this episode Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt interview Brian Zahnd and have a conversation about his newest book “The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross”.

Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Brian and his wife, Peri, founded the church in 1981. Brian is also the author of several books, including, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Water to Wine, A Farewell To Mars, Beauty Will Save the World, and Unconditional?: The Call of Jesus to Radical Forgiveness.

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Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt interview Dr. Philip Payne. In this episode we discuss the concept of gender roles, the meaning of "head" and "headship", and the text critical issues with 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 and how it relates to inerrancy and gender equality.

Dr. Philip Payne is the founder and president of Linguist’s Software, and is a specialist in New Testament Studies. He is well known for his studies on New Testament Textual Criticism, the Parables of Jesus, and Man and Woman in the Teachings of Paul. He and his wife Nancy were missionaries in Japan with the Evangelical Free Church, where they ministered to students in the Kyoto Christian Studies Center and taught New Testament. He received his PhD in New Testament from Cambridge and has held many NT teaching positions at prominent Universities and Seminaries such as Cambridge, Gordon-Conwell, and Fuller.

Order the book: the Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God’s Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality. 

In this episode Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt look at the NT author’s usage of Isaiah 53. It is quoted 9 times in the NT directly. We’ll also look at Acts where we’ll see how the disciples use the same depiction we encountered in the last episode to describe the Servant and the people’s actions against Him. Last, we’ll look at “bearing sin” in the NT and show show it also lines up with how it is described in Isaiah 53 where the servant bears the abuse of the people (not God) for their healing.  

Isaiah 53:1

John 12:37-38

Romans 10:15-16

Isaiah 53:4

Matthew 8:16-17

Isaiah 5:7-8

Acts 8:32-33

Isaiah 53:9; 4

1 Peter 2:22-24

Isaiah 53:12

Mark 15:28-28

Luke 22:36-38

8/9 uses of Isaiah 53 in the NT are quoted from the LXX. Remember from the last episode this is the version with 1 voice that shows how God is not acting against the servant but the people are. 

Acts and the Suffering Servant

Acts 2:23-28 

Acts 2:29-36

Acts 3:13-18

Acts 4:10-11

Acts 5:27-28

Acts 7:51-52

Acts 10:39-41

Acts 13:26-41

The Release from Exile and “Bearing Sin”

Galatians 3:8-14 

2 Corinthians 5:22

Conclusions

As in the interpretation of the OT context of Isaiah 53, we don’t see God acting in wrath against the servant but rather healing and redeeming him. It was the people who acted in violence against the servant. But God used this for our redemption. 

Jesus did bear sin… He bore the sinful and violent actions of the people. 

Some of the major things we can take away is that God can redeem evil for his good. The evil actions of the people were redeemed in the healing of the servant. And the crowd later realized those actions were not of God, even though they thought they were doing the Lord’s bidding in their scapegoating. 

PSA is also non-existent in the interpretations of Isaiah 53 in the OT when we compare the voices of the LXX and the MT. Also the NT writers consistently use the LXX when referring to Isaiah 53 and never apply Jesus’ death to anything regarding wrath satisfaction or appeasement. 

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Today Dr. Will Ryan and Dr. Matt dive into Isaiah 53 looking at the textual and message differences in the Septuagint (LXX) and the Masorectic Text (MTT).

When read as pros (singular voice) these 2 texts disagree with each other and depict 2 different pictures of God. So, in this episode we examine the message of each (and imported doctrines) and see if they agree. The main points of this conversation are: Inerrancy, the character of God, and how this affects atonement theories.

THE LXX TEXT