1 Corinthians 11 - Bible Study - Head Coverings and the Lord's Supper
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- This is part twelve of a bible study series on the book of 1 Corinthians. This video covers the eleventh chapter.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
I have been covering my head in the church for more than 15 years. It is indeed a beautiful apostolic practice.
Thank you for the teaching concerning the discerning of the Body of Christ, twofold. 🙌
Faith Of Our Fathers is a gift as is your exegesis! Thank you for expanding my understanding and appreciation of our Holy faith and practice!
Interesting how modern cultural norms are dictating church practice and even belief today.
When I attended a Baptist church, I was the only woman who covered. Come-as-you-are was the unstated dress code, so lots of Spandex, tight jeans, and skimpy skirts. Lovely group of folks, but I did sometimes wonder WHAT people were thinking. Am now attending a Catholic church. About a fifth of the women cover their heads. Clothing is a notch more modest, too.
The Catholic Church still veils. It’s not universal, but enough do so to be noticeable. They have lace veils they cover their heads with.
Very helpful video. I have been returning to 1 Cor. 11 often in considering the meaning of men and women in worship and in family and importance of the "image" (Eikon) and "glory" (Doxa) of man and woman. A couple of things have stood out to me.
1. The restriction of the passage to husbands and wives was standard in the NRSV translation, but in the 2021 NRSV "Updated Edition" that is reversed and the terminology throughout ch. 11 is men and women generically, not husbands and wives. That signals, to me, that the current scholarly consensus favours this passage addressing men and women in general in worship, not husbands and wives only.
2. When St. Paul says that man is the image and glory of God and woman is the image and glory of man, some liberal theologians and biblical scholars want to assert that Paul is contradicting Genesis 1 where both man and woman are made in the image of God. But could this God-Man distinction not be a reference to the hypostatic union of Christ's two natures? In other words, men and women are the images and glory of the God-Man, Jesus Christ, the Totus Christus--men are the image and glory of the divine nature (God) and women are the image and glory of the perfect human nature (Man). Have you come across that idea in any commentaries on 1 Cor. 11? I am currently searching around the Church Fathers for any precedent to that kind of reading of the passage.
Thanks for this, Joel. Re: your second point: interesting idea. I have not come across that in my reading of commentaries. As I said in the video, I am inclined to think St. Paul has in mind the relationship between Christ and the Church that is reflected in marriage. As I understand it, the phrase "Totus Christus" refers to that relationship, rather than the two natures in Christ. But your comment is worth reflecting upon further.