Professors from an evangelical seminary have taken issue with the common interpretation of Ephesians 5, arguing that it’s oftentimes misused.
Ephesians 5 is a controversial passage in modern society, especially verses 22–24: “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”
Sandra Glahn, associate professor in Media Arts and Worship at Dallas Theological Seminary who teaches a gender studies course, and Darrell Bock, senior research professor of New Testament at DTS, disagree with those who interpret the passage as meaning that wives must be subservient to their husbands.
In an episode of the DTS podcast The Table published online Tuesday, Bock referred to Ephesians 5 as a “counter cultural passage that has been misused.”
“What makes that passage so famous and a bugaboo for some people is the word submission comes up. Only it’s not submission for most people. For some people the word submission [is] a bad word. It’s almost a four letter word,” explained Bock.
Glahn went on to…
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