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Why We Need Women Evangelists around the World
By: Kari Torjesen Malcolm | April 30, 1989
The call for women missionaries is not often heard today. Often women are left with the feeling “we are only needed because the men fail to go.” Our American culture looks on pioneer missionary work as man’s work because the Church is infiltrated with a worldly and pagan view of women as inferior to [...]
Why We’ve Missed the Mark
By: Frances Hiebert | April 30, 1989
Biblical feminists, as opposed to other feminists outside and within the church, accept the full authority of all Scripture for all the people of God. But they recognize, with all modern people, that we do not absorb Scripture in its pure form into our understanding. Like anything else we read, reading Scripture is an interpretive [...]
Saint Paul, Apostle of Freedom for Women and Men: An Interview with F. F. Bruce
By: W. Ward Gasque, Laurel Gasque | April 30, 1989
Until his retirement in 1978, Frederick Fyvie Bruce, occupied the prestigious John Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at Manchester University in England. Today, he continues to be the dean of evangelical biblical scholars. The following interview was conducted by W. Ward Gasque and Laurel Gasque, who recently visited with Professor and Mrs. Bruce in [...]
The Church and the Abuse of Women
By: Phyllis Alsdurf, James Alsdurf | January 31, 1989
Much of the research in the area of wife abuse has been done by feminists, some of whom themselves have been victims of wife beating...They have given up on the hope that change will come through social institutions such as the church. Rather than seeing the church as part of the solution to the [...]
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.