Women in Ministry. Biblical & Historical Perspectives
Women in Ministry. Biblical &
Historical Perspectives
by a Special Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist
Theological Seminary. Editor: Nancy Vyhmeister
Published by the Andrews University Press, 213
Information Services Building, Berrien Springs, MI 49104-1700, USA. ISBN
1-883925-22-3. Total: 439 pages. List Price $ 11.99. Orders from (616) 471-6134
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This is a very interesting and worthwhile book for everyone studying
the ordination of women.
It contains valuable research papers, written by the members of a
Special Committee on the Ordination of Women, brought together by the SDA
Theological Seminary of St. Andrews University. It tries to address the
questions that the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Churches is meeting
all the time.
May a woman legitimately be ordained to pastoral ministry? If so, on
what basis? If not, why not? What are the issues involved—hermeneutics?
Bible and theology? custom and culture? history and tradition? pragmatism and
missiological needs? And furthermore, how could all these facets of the issue
be presented in a logical, coherent manner?
The authors who present their carefully researched documents in this
book come to the overall conclusion that Scripture does not forbid the
ordination of women pastors in our time.
John Wijngaards
Table of Contents
Prologue
PART ONE: MINTSTRY IN THE BIBLE
- Raoul Dederen,
“The Priesthood of All Believers”
- Jacques B.
Doukhan, “Women Priests in Israel: A Case for Their
Absence”
- Robert M.
Johnston, “Shapes of Ministry in the New Testament and Early
Church»
- Keith
Mattingly, «Laying on of Hands in Ordination: A Biblical Study»
PART TWO: ORDINATION IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND ADVENTISM
- Daniel A.
Augsburger, «Clerical Authority and Ordination in the Early Christian
Church»
- George R.
Knight, “Early Seventh-day Adventists and Ordination,
1844-1863”
- J. H. Denis
Fortin, «Ordination in the Writings of Ellen G. White»
- Russell L.
Staples, “A Theological Understanding of Ordination”
PART THREE: WOMEN IN MINISTRY AND LEADERSHIP
- Jo Ann
Davidson, “Women in Scripture: A Survey and Evaluation”
- Jerry Moon,
«‘A Power That Exceeds That of Men’: Ellen G. White on Women in
Ministry»
- Michael Bernoi,
«Nineteenth-Century Women in Adventist Ministry Against the Backdrop of
Their Times»
- Randal R.
Wisbey, “SDA Women in Ministry, 1970-1998”
PART FOUR: PERCEIVED IMPEDIMENTS TO WOMEN IN
MINISTRY
- Richard M.
Davidson, «Headship, Submission, and Equality in
Scripture»
- Peter M. van
Bemmelen, «Equality, Headship, and Submission in the Writings of Ellen G.
White»
- W. Larry
Richards, “How Does a Woman Prophesy and Keep Silence at the Same Time? (1
Corinthians 11 and 14)»
- Nancy Jean
Vyhmeister, «Proper Church Behavior in 1 Timothy
2:8-15»
- Alicia A.
Worley, «Ellen White and Women’s Rights»
PART FIVE: OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
- Walter B. T.
Douglas, «The Distance and the Difference: Reflections on Issues of
Slavery and Women’s Ordination in Adventism»
- Roger L.
Dudley, «The Ordination of Women in Light of the Character of
God»
- Jon L. Dybdahl,
«Culture and Biblical Understanding in a World Church»
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