While working on 1Cor 14, I had to give some thought to what Paul said about women's role in church. While it is common to dismiss what Paul says in 1Cor 14:34,35 as something contextual, Paul himself actually says in v.37 - referring to the whole of 1Cor 14, inclusive of v.34,35, that this is:-
1. a commandment from the Lord
2. v.33 places the context as "all the churches of the saints", and not just the Corinthian church
This presents us a very difficult problem. The following article takes a very literal and conservative position with regards these two verses:-
http://www.ntrf.org/articles/article_de ... p?PRKey=54
The exegesis is near faultless but what do we do with the theology here?