Women in Ministry: An
Introduction to the Questions
____Part 1: Genesis
____Part 2: The flow
of Scripture
____Part 3: 1
Corinthians 11 & 14
____Part 4: 1 Timothy 2
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Suggested reading
Numerous books and articles have been published
on this subject. Our 1997 study paper mentioned the following, in
alphabetical order:
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Clouse, Bonnidell, and Robert G. Clouse. Women
in Ministry: Four Views. InterVarsity, 1989. Robert Culver and Susan
Foh argue against the ordination of women, Walter Liefeld argues that
ordination itself is erroneous, and Alvera Mickelsen argues in favor of
women's ordination.
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Grenz, Stanley J. and Denise Muir
Kjesbo. Women in the Church: A Biblical Theology of Women in Ministry.
InterVarsity, 1995. A readable presentation of the egalitarian view.
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Keener, Craig S. Paul, Women and
Wives: Marriage and Women's Ministry in the Letters of Paul.
Hendrickson, 1995. Egalitarian, with extensive footnotes about historical
situations.
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Köstenberger, Andreas J., Thomas R.
Schreiner, and H. Scott Baldwin, eds. Women in the Church: A Fresh
Analysis of 1 Timothy 2:9-15. Baker, 1995. Argues against the
ordination of women.
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Piper, John, and Wayne Grudem,
editors. Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to
Evangelical Feminism. Crossway Books, 1991. The most thorough (500+
pages) argument against ordaining women.
Several books have been published since 1997.
We recommend this one in particular:
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Beck, James R. and Craig L. Blomberg,
editors. Two Views on Women in Ministry (Zondervan, 2001). Craig
Keener and Linda Belleville write in favor of women in ministry; Thomas
Schreiner and Ann Bowman argue against. Beck (in favor) and Blomberg
(against) comment on the essays. A model of peaceful discussion.
We especially recommend that
you read a book explaining the view that you do not hold.
In the above list, we have
recommended an equal number of books "for" as "against."
Some pastors have recommended the following books:
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Slaves, Women and
Homosexuals, by William J. Webb. InterVarsity, 2001. Gives a
rationale for discerning which biblical values are cultural and which
are not.
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Women Leaders and the
Church: Three
Crucial Questions, by Linda Belleville. Baker, 1999. Well
researched.
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Women in Ministry: Biblical
and Historical Perspectives. Nancy Vymeister, ed. Andrews University
Press, 1998. A well-researched Adventist effort.
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Women
in the Church's Ministry: A Test Case for Biblical Interpretation --
R. T. France.
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The
Ministry of Women --
Thomas F. Torrance (13 page booklet, out of print, hard to find)
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The
Trinity & Subordinationism:
The Doctrine of God & the Contemporary Gender Debate
--
Kevin Giles
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"Headship with a
Heart" Christianity Today, February 2003
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A
Biblical & Theological Basis for Women in Ministry, by the Evangelical
Covenant Church
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Women in
Ministry: studies by the Presbyterian & Reformed Renewal Ministries
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What Paul Really Said
About Women, by John Temple Bristow
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