Word: apostlesâ
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...Bible is being called as witness in other kinds of current ecclesiastical debate. Both Jesus' selection of his Apostles???all men?and St. Paul's restrictive remarks about women ("It is shameful for a woman to speak in church") are cited by Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Missouri Synod Lutherans as precedents that forbid female clergy. On a quite different level, Gospel polemics against the Jews still help to nourish a residual anti-Semitism in Sunday-school and catechism classes...
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