Untie the Cords of Silence

by Michael Huffman, Anne E Zaki (Foreword by), Marisa Lapish (Afterword)

Overview

Christians often feel they are faced with a choice: "Either I compromise my commitment to biblical authority, or I embrace male authority over women, as the Bible teaches." Such a dilemma tends to prod Christians, often reluctantly, down one of two paths. One path involves relegating the Bible's teaching to an antiquated past. Certain passages are labeled artifacts of a "patriarchal" culture and deemed irrelevant for today. The other path involves a doubling-down, in which Christians commit themselves to the Bible's perceived teaching about male authority, and thereby set themselves over against a full commitment to equality. Untie the Cords of Silence shows through careful readings of relevant biblical passages that Christians need not go down either of these paths. It is possible to hold to both biblical authority and the full equality of men and women. In fact, doing so is the most logically coherent way of applying the Bible's message to the Christian life. This book does not merely provide a way to tolerate the "problem" texts. Instead, it restores these texts to their rightful place as coherent, integrated parts of the Bible's message of salvation and freedom in Christ.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666721003
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	01/03/2022
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Michael Huffman has taught and mentored youth as a youth pastor and religious education teacher for the past ten years. He resides in Turkey with this wife Isabel and his four children. Michael earned his BA in biblical studies from The Master's College and his MDiv and ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Here is an invaluable resource for Christians who want to investigate for themselves what Scripture has to say about women. With exegetical acumen, patience, and winsomeness, Huffman synthesizes and interprets the best of recent scholarship on a host of challenging biblical texts. . . . He argues compellingly that the mutuality of men and women in Christ is no extra-biblical principle but the best interpretation of Scripture itself.”

—Cambria Kaltwasser, Northwestern College



“Michael doesn’t shy away from the various difficult passages in the Bible about women. Bible verses that have been used to silence the voices of women in churches. . . . Michael’s book continues to untie the voices that have been ever so present in the life of Jesus. This book is for every pastor of every church and every woman who has been made to believe that our voices are not equal to the male voice.”

—Jennie Lee Salas, Princeton Theological Seminary

Editorial Reviews

Here is an invaluable resource for Christians who want to investigate for themselves what Scripture has to say about women. With exegetical acumen, patience, and winsomeness, Huffman synthesizes and interprets the best of recent scholarship on a host of challenging biblical texts. . . . He argues compellingly that the mutuality of men and women in Christ is no extra-biblical principle but the best interpretation of Scripture itself.”

—Cambria Kaltwasser, Northwestern College



“Michael doesn’t shy away from the various difficult passages in the Bible about women. Bible verses that have been used to silence the voices of women in churches. . . . Michael’s book continues to untie the voices that have been ever so present in the life of Jesus. This book is for every pastor of every church and every woman who has been made to believe that our voices are not equal to the male voice.”

—Jennie Lee Salas, Princeton Theological Seminary

From the Publisher