Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
The Bible's teachings on divorce are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In Christian advocacy spaces there's this idea going around that when writing about divorce it's okay to fit the jigsaw puzzle pieces together any old which way, so long as you come to an ethical conclusion. An ethical conclusion — doesn't entrap women… Continue reading The jigsaw puzzle of divorce texts in the Bible. Putting the pieces together to reach an ethical conclusion is not enough.
In Matthew 19, when Jesus was speaking about divorce and remarriage, he was addressing only the ways that the Jewish religious leaders in his day were misinterpreting Deuteronomy 24:1. He was only pushing back against male-privileged rabbinic interpretations of Deuteronomy 24:1. The Jews who heard Jesus talking to the Pharisees would have known that Jesus… Continue reading When Jesus spoke about divorce and remarriage, he was pushing back against male-privileged interpretations of Deuteronomy 24
