From Genesis to Junia | Preston Sprinkle and Beth Allison Barr 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, documents his exegetical journey through Scripture and his change of mind from a default complementarian position to the belief that women can lead and teach in the church without restriction.

The book opened up a bigger conversation. Beth Allison Barr, historian and author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood, engaged with it publicly on her Substack, raising questions about neutrality, privilege, embodied theology, and whose voices the conversation includes. We brought both of them onto TheoDisc to continue that conversation together.

What follows is a scholarly exchange that goes beyond the book, into the questions it surfaces about women, leadership, and what the church does next.

Chapters:
00:26 Introduction
02:47 Motivation
13:33 Response
36:10 Progression
51:37 Application

Links:
Get Preston’s books, including ‘From Genesis to Junia’: https://bit.ly/4n38IwN
Theology in the Raw podcast: https://bit.ly/4e2qM7M
Get Beth's books: https://bit.ly/4sTTc7F
Watch our previous interview with Beth: https://youtu.be/nEAxldeaZIU

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