Theology Of Paul

THEOLOGY OF PAUL
M.M.NINAN
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John Calvin (16th Century)
In the other class are the hours set apart for public prayer, sermon, and solemn services; during sermon, quiet
and silence, fixed places, singing of hymns, days set apart for the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, the prohibition
of Paul against women teaching in the Church, and such like. To the same list especially may be reffered those
things which preserve discipline, as catechising, ecclesiastical censures, excommunication, fastings, etc. Thus all
ecclesiastical constitutions, which we admit to be sacred and salutary, may be reduced to two heads, the one
relating to rites and ceremonies, the other to discipline and peace. Calvin : Institutes : Book 4 : Ch 11 Para 29
Richard Hooker (16th Century)
To make women teachers in the house of God were a gross absurdity, seeing the Apostle hath said, “I permit not
a woman to teach” (1 Tim 2.2); and again “Let your women in churches be silent” (1 Cor 14.34). Those
extraordinary gifts of speaking with tongues and prophesying, which God at that time did not only bestow upon
men, but on women also, made it the harder to hold them confined with private bounds. Whereupon the Apostle’s
ordinance was necessary against women’s public admission to teach.
Richard Hooker : Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Book 5, 62.2
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