Preston Sprinkle and Beth Allison Barr - From Genesis to Junia... And Beyond

About this episode

A scholarly discussion on women, leadership, and the church featuring Preston Sprinkle and Beth Allison Barr.

A Scholarly Discussion on Women, Leadership, and the Church Preston Sprinkle's latest book, From Genesis to Junia: An Honest Search For What The Bible Really Says About Women In Leadership takes an exegetical journey through the Scriptures, and Preston’s consequent change of mind from a default complementarian position to the belief that women can lead and teach in the church without restriction. Some women responding have offered critique while remaining thankful for Preston’s overall work in the book, including Beth Allison Barr, who published a response on her Substack which Preston has engaged with. We wanted to invite both of them onto TheoDisc to have a scholarly conversation where agreements and disagreements could be aired, and Preston could respond and clarify. That’s the conversation we have on this episode of TheoDisc. Enjoy! SHOW NOTES Get Preston’s books, including ‘From Genesis to Junia’: HERE Theology in the Raw podcast: HERE Get Beth’s books: HERE Watch our previous interview with Beth: HERE

People in this episode

Host: TheoDisc

Guests: Preston Sprinkle, Beth Allison Barr

Topics covered

• Women in Leadership
• Biblical Interpretation
• Church Leadership
• Complementarianism
• Exegetical Journey
• Scholarly Discussion

Keywords

• women in leadership
• theology
• church
• complementarianism
• exegetical journey
• Preston Sprinkle
• Beth Allison Barr

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Theology in the Raw, Substack

Books & works: From Genesis to Junia

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