Carolina’s Reviews > Transfiguring Headship: A Figural Theology of Gender > Status Update

“Methodologically, a figural approach involves close attention to the scriptural text, with the canon as the primary context for illuminating the sense that inheres in a given passage. This stands in contrast with a historical-critical approach that understands each text’s historical context to be a primary factor in interpretation.”

It is indeed Paul’s own engagement with “the head” as a soteriologically rich scriptural figure (e.g., in Eph 5: 22–33) that will serve to guide my own figural engagement with the same.”