Liberal religious feminists vary widely in their approach to the Bible. Some reject it altogether as an oppressive, patriarchal burden. Less radical are those who seek to retain for the Bible some of the role it has played at the church, and who seek feminist conclusions in the Bible. But to reach that conclusion, he has to reject most of the passages in Paul's letters that contradict his view. Nonetheless, Scroggs proceeds in an adroit bit of revisionist exegesis to show that no subordination of the woman is suggested in 1 Corinthians 11.
Evangelical feminists take a much less critical approach.
Some argue that both ancient and modern readers have read the subordination of women into the text. Others have suggested that the problems have to do with the application of key biblical passages to a modern audience. Secular feminists eliminate God altogether. They see the overwhelming masculinity of the biblical references to God as merely another evidence that sexists males have made God in their own image. Evangelical feminists have the precarious task of balancing an ancient, biblical view of the Creator with a modern, egalitarian view of the creature.