The Question of Women's Ministry (original) (raw)

Sue Edwards and Kelley Mathews, 40 Questions Women in Ministry. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel, 2022

Reading Acts, 2022

As with other volumes in Kregel Academic’s 40 Question series, this book is a collection of short essays grouped into four categories. Like most of these kinds of books, Edwards and Mathews do not solve these difficult problems. In fact, that is not their goal. “Gifted and godly scholars disagree on whether women can lead the church (291). Since not everything is solved, they encourage the reader to keep on wrestling with these issues” (292).

Living Testaments: How Catholic and Baptist Women in Ministry Both Judge and Renew the Church

Ecclesial practices, 2017

In 2014 women constituted 15.8% of u.s. clergy. They led 10% of u.s. congregations. While the numbers have increased dramatically in fifty years, this data invites a deeper question. What does women's entry into ministry (lay and ordained) mean for ecclesiology, the life and doctrines of the church? Four case studies from two qualitative investigations of ministry illustrate women's pastoral leadership from the margins of Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist churches, showing how women called to ministry are: living testaments to a renewed vision for church that embraces the fullness of humanity; living judgments on harms and shortcomings of the church; embodied revisions to ecclesial practices. Each case study bears witness to situated possibility of the Spirit's work; exposes and challenges sins of sexism; shows every day dilemmas over resisting and subverting power; and reframes doctrine and practice from the margins, renewing ecclesial vision for the church.

Biblical Equality and Christian Ministry

Priscilla Papers, 1989

Author: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull Publisher: CBE International There is indeed a noticeable increase in rhetoric from the conservative wing of the church calling for rigid roles for men and women, in effect defining activities in home, church, and society primarily by gender. And very often this rhetoric claims to be representing a Christian world view, thus – at first glance -making its conclusion seem ironclad. Well, any of you who have read my book, EQUAL TO SERVE, know that I am a questionasker. Therefore I ask: What is a Christian world view? Surely it must be more than a televangelist's cliché or an empty religious slogan. A Christian world view must mean a basic, scriptural way of looking at life that will cut across denominational particularities or emotional bias or cultural pressures. So let's explore the matter to see if there is a broad outline to our Christian world view that we can establish before we go on to those particularities, or deal with that emotional bias or cultural pressure. Certainly if someone stopped you or me and said, "Define a Christian world view," we would not begin with particulars but would start with the broader basics. So let's ask some questions about those basics, and see if our answers will shed light on this particular matter of gender roles.

A Theology of Women in Church Leadership

The complementarian and egalitarian interpretation of Scripture 2. Biblical criteria for the office of elder or pastor 2.1. The history of leadership and teaching in the Bible 2.2. The biblical qualifications and functions of elders and pastors 2.3. An exegesis of 1 st Timothy 2:11-14 2.4. An exegesis of Galatians 3:28 3. Towards a biblical model of church leadership 3.1. A proposed biblical model of church leadership 3.2. The contemporary significance of biblical church leadership Conclusion Works Cited e) Overseeing financial matters in the church. This was the focus of the elders in Acts 11:30. f) Pray for those who are sick in the church, as mentioned in James 5:13-16. We have established the qualifications and functions of an elder/pastor in the church. The next section will focus on two key texts that complementarians and egalitarians use in support of their arguments; they are, 1 st Timothy 2:11-14 and Galatians 3:28.

Contemporary or Liberal Theology: Women in Ministry.docx

In Partial Fulfillment of Seminary at Liberty University Rawling"s School of Divinity This paper was written in a discussion board in reference to Contemporary Theology in regards to Enns "The Moody Handbook of Theology." It speaks about how women are more in the Pastoral roles and have always been an important part of God"s ministry work throughout Biblical History. That does not mean that women are now giving up there roles of wife and mother for a position of power, or at the heads of their homes and marriages. It just shows that God has always used women in some form of Ministerial work and continues to do so today. Women are not so much at home raising children; today, they are in the workforce as strong powerful Children of Gods ministry and work. Things are changing and so are the roles of women, whether society chooses to acknowledge it or not? This does not lessen or deny the facts of the Bible, it just shows the facts of how times are changing.

The Baptist Ministers' Journal A Biblical basis for affirming women in ministry (Pt 2)

2007

leader of Faithworks, reflects on the Church's response to the multi-aspected challenge of poverty. There was once a rich man, expensively dressed in the latest fashions, wasting his days in conspicuous consumption. A poor man named Lazarus [literally means 'without helpJ, covered with sores, had been dumped on his doorstep. All he lived for was to get a meal from scraps off the rich man's table. His best friends were the dogs who came and licked his sores. Luke 16:19ff [The Message] At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom. We are what we are, in part, because of each other.

Women and Christian Ministry

2019

A brief exploration and critical analysis of the debate regarding inclusion of women into ecclesiastical leadership.

What Women Can Do in Ministry: Full Participation Within Biblical Boundaries

g IN OUR CULTURE, WE WORSHIP DIVERSITY WITH OUR LIPS, but it seems that our hearts may be set on uniformity. This grows out of a secular understanding of diversity, which results not in variety but in homogeneity. Rather than celebrating diversity in the clothes worn by men and women, we are offered uni-sex clothing. Rather than celebrating the diversity of sizes and shapes in which people come, many feel pressure to conform their bodies to a cookie-cutter pattern. Rather than celebrating marriages that are diversified by the incorporation of a male and a female, a vocal minority wishes to eliminate gender diversity from marriage, and some wish to conduct life as though gender does not exist at all. This attitude is reflected in the recent outcry over some com