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Women in Ministry: The View from Eden

By: Robert L. Hubbard | January 31, 1989

In Eden we glimpse the larger purposes of God for humankind. These glimpses offer the framework within which the debate about the specific roles for men and women in the Christian ministry must take place.

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Women's Place in the Church as Taught in Holy Scripture

By: CBE International | July 31, 1988

Reproduced from The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, vol. 27, no. 6, June 1896.  

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Ten Christian Women

By: Elizabeth Myers | July 31, 1988

Junia, the female companion of Andronicus, has the unique distinction (for one of her sex) of being referred to by St. Paul as an apostle (Romans 16:7). Although she was one of Paul’s relatives, coming to faith ahead of her more famous kinsman, we know but little about her ministry. 

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The Role of Women in the Church, in Society and in the Home

By: W. Ward Gasque | April 30, 1988

The two divergent approaches to the question of the role of women which are common among contemporary Evangelical Christians we might call the Traditional View (the majority opinion) and the Egalitarian View (the minority opinion).

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Who Are the Women in I Timothy 2:1-15 (Part 2)

By: Berkeley Mickelsen | April 30, 1988

We turn our attention to the presence or absence of the Greek article in the crucial passages that have been used for centuries to limit the participation of women in teaching and leadership in the church.

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Book Review: Equal to Serve: Women and Men in the Church and Home

By: CBE International | April 30, 1988

"We are to concentrate on the inner characteristics of a person, not on his or her gender." So states author Gretchen Gaebelein Hull, a biblical feminist whose new book, Equal To Serve, comes to grips with the controversial social issues of today. 

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Book Review: A Cord of Three Strands: A Way for Both Men and Women to Be Used Fully by God

By: Alvera Mickelsen | April 30, 1988

This book makes a distinct contribution to the current literature on biblical teachings about men and women in marriage and as co-workers in the service of Christ. The three strands in Wright's book refers to man, woman, and God.

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Call Me Blessed: The Emerging Christian Woman

By: Faith Martin | April 1, 1988

Through this book, readers participate in an informed laywoman's struggle to understand woman's place in the Kingdom. It is a rare book, one that draws on scholarly material, yet remains readable and personal in tone and style; one that is strongly worded, yet without a rancorous edge. It is a book that seeks, with proper [...]

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Book Review: Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation

By: James R. Beck | January 31, 1988

Biblical feminists will be interested in a chapter titled "Family: Toward Androgyny." Hunter's sociological study of evangelical college and seminary students surveys current attitudes regarding world, morality, self, theology, politics, and the family.

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Holiness Perspectives on Headship and Women's Equality

By: Susie C. Stanley | January 30, 1988

This article will examine briefly the views of headship expressed by three leaders in the early Holiness Movement. They claimed that the doctrine of headship or submission was irrelevant in arguments opposing women’s ordination and limited the discussion of headship to relationships within marriage.

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