Two Views on Women in Ministry (Counterpoints)
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Overview
What does the Bible say about women’s roles in the church? This book furnishes you with a clear and thorough presentation of the two primary views on women in ministry so you can better understand each one’s strengths, weaknesses, and complexities. Each view—egalitarian and complementarian—is represented by two contributors.
Each author states his or her case and is then critiqued by the other. The fair-minded, interactive Counterpoints forum allows you to compare and contrast the two different positions, and to form your own opinion concerning the practical and often deeply personal issue of women in ministry.
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- Provides numerous perspectives on women in ministry
- Compares and critique multiple distinct views
- Includes contributions from a diverse assortment of distinguished scholars and theologians
- “An Egalitarian Perspective” by Linda L. Belleville
- “A Complementarian Perspective” by Craig L. Blomberg
- “Another Egalitarian Perspective” by Craig S. Keener
- “Another Complementarian Perspective” by Thomas R. Schreiner
Top Highlights
“We believe one can build a credible case within the bounds of orthodoxy and a commitment to inerrancy for either one of the two major views we address in this volume, although all of us view our own positions on the matter as stronger and more compelling.” (Page 15)
“So the issue that divides traditionalists (now self-identified as ‘complementarians’) and egalitarians today is not that of women in ministry per se (i.e., women exercising their spiritual gifts). It is rather women in leadership, for while a consensus has emerged regarding women and spiritual gifting, a great divide has emerged on the issue of women in leadership—especially women leading men.” (Page 23)
“The reason for this state of affairs is not hard to pinpoint: the relationship of male and female continues to be perceived in hierarchical ways. God created men to lead; God created women to follow.7 It is this that fundamentally differentiates a traditionalist from an egalitarian today.” (Page 23)
“There is also sameness of function. Both male and female are commanded to exercise dominion over the earth—to ‘rule over’ all of it (1:26, 28) and to ‘subdue’ it (v. 28).” (Page 26)
“Naming in antiquity was a way of memorializing an event or capturing a distinctive attribute; it was not an act of control or power.” (Page 28)
- Title: Two Views on Women in Ministry
- Authors: Linda Belleville, Craig Blomberg, Craig Keener, Thomas Schreiner
- Edition: Revised Edition
- Series: Zondervan Counterpoints Series
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2005
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Women clergy
- ISBNs: 9780310509455, 9780310254379, 0310509459, 031025437X
- Resource ID: LLS:CNTRPNTSTWVWSWM
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:53:39Z
James R. Beck is senior professor of counseling at Denver Seminary. He is the author of The Human Person in Theology and Psychology: A Biblical Anthropology for the Twenty-first Century.
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Matt DeVore
2/24/2024
Joshua Tan
5/21/2023
Alessandro
2/23/2023
Good book. I do not understand why in his response to Keener Schreiner says "Women served as prophets, deacons, and patrons but not as priests, apostles, and pastors." Is he maybe reading Romans 16:7 about Junia differently than most scholars?
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