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The Scandal of Equality in First-Century Christian Teaching

By: David Instone-Brewer | September 5, 2004

The Scandal of Equality in First-Century Christian Teaching

Biblical Basis for Women's Service in the Church

By: N. T. Wright | September 5, 2004

The Biblical Basis for Women’s Service in the Church

Editor's Reflections | Summer 2004

By: Victoria Peterson-Hilleque | July 31, 2004

It has been said that if we do not remember our history we are doomed to repeat it, but in this issue of Priscilla Papers I think an opposite version of the phrase is more applicable: if we do not remember our history we are doomed not to repeat it.

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Topics: Editorial

The Starlight Night

By: Gerard Manley Hopkins | July 31, 2004

Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes! The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare! Flake-doves sent floating [...]

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Topics: Poetry

The Doctrine of the Trinity and Subordination

By: Kevin Giles | July 31, 2004

No longer is it thought that the Trinity is an obtuse, secondary, and impractical dogma. Today theologians are generally agreed that this doctrine is foundational to the Christian faith because it articulates what is most distinctive in the biblical revelation of God—he is triune.

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Not to be Forgotten: Gladys Aylward 1902-1970 Missionary to China

By: Leslie Hammond | July 31, 2004

In 1930, a young woman named Gladys Aylward left the suburbs of London and set out for China, convicted that she was meant to preach the gospel to the people of this remote land. Rejected by the China Inland Mission because her “advanced age” of 28 made her too old to learn Chinese, she headed for the [...]

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Evidence for and Significance of Feminine God-Language from the Church Fathers to the Modern Era

By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | July 31, 2004

Throughout history why did the church frequently use feminine language for God? In what way did this feminine language serve the church? Why do we evangelicals, in contrast, appear so uncomfortable with feminine imagery for God?

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Book Review: Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and Pauline Communities

By: Kevin Giles | June 30, 2004

Based on my reading, Winter in each instance seems to interpret key texts in dispute in a way completely in sympathy with the hierarchical-complementarian agenda. If his exegesis were compelling we would need to listen, but it is not.

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Rise Up: A Call to Leadership for African American Women

By: Sylvia Rose | June 9, 2004

Do you hear the call to lead? "The world needs women to stand in leadership," writes Sylvia Rose, "black women in particular. We need to lead from the insight that we have had at the bottom. We need to take our valley experiences to those on the mountaintop."

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