Women, Ministry and the Gospel

by Mark Husbands; Timothy Larsen

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2007

Overview

This outstanding collection of essays, presented at the 2005 Wheaton Theology Conference, explores the current issue of women in ministry from biblical, theological and ecclesiological perspectives. Bringing to bear the ministerial and sociological insights on the issue, this impressive integrative work aims to break through the current impasse between complementarians and egalitarians. These essays point the way forward for women and men in ministry in our churches.

Contents

Top Highlights

“However, this complaint is registered without a clear appreciation that real men and women lived within a matrix of Greco-Roman social and gender constructs that guided and limited their movements.” (Page 82)

“Philosophers and physicians concluded that a female had an increased risk of pollution, because her body was more permeable.” (Page 88)

“Whose interpretation of Genesis 1–3 is deemed authoritative—that of the modern scholar or that of the apostle Paul?” (Page 50)

“The issue in this passage is not the external head covering but what that head covering represents” (Pages 46–47)

“Genesis 2:17 before the creation of the woman is described.” (Page 48)

Product Details

• Title: Women, Ministry and the Gospel
• Editors: Mark Husbands and Timothy Larsen
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 300

About the Editors

Mark Husbands (Ph.D., University of St. Michael's College) is Leonard and Marjorie Maas Associate Professor of Reformed Theology at Hope College. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, and at Tyndale College and Seminary and Sheridan College in Toronto. While a Master’s student at Wycliffe College at the Toronto School of Theology, he was senior editor of Prolegomena, an academic journal in theology.

Timothy Larsen is Professor of Theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been elected a Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.