Gagged, Forbidden, and Restricted?
Do these terms fit what Paul says about women in 1 Timothy 2?
The words “gagged, forbidden, and restricted” come from a statement by my professor, James D.G. Dunn, in his commentary on Pastoral Epistles, where he wonders aloud what to do with a text like this in a world like ours.
So here we go again, with the keen realization that this text triggers some women about how they’ve been treated in churches by complem…