3 Crucial Questions
Linda L. Belleville
3 Crucial Questions
Grant R. Osborne and Richard J. Jones, Jr., editors
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Belleville, Linda L. Women leaders and the church: 3 crucial questions / Linda L. Belleville. p. cm.—(3 crucial questions) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8010-5351-X (pbk.) 1. Women clergy—Biblical teaching. 2. Women—Biblical teaching. 3. Leadership—Biblical teaching. 4. Women in Christianity—History—Early church, ca. 30-600. I. Title. II. Series. BV676.B37 1999 262'.1'082—dc21 99-051608 |
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In memory of my mother Sophie Mae Stipek (1912–1999)
1 In Which Ministries Can Women Be Involved?
2 What Roles Can Women Play in Society?
3 Can Women Hold Positions of Authority?
The books in the 3 Crucial Questions series are the published form of the 3 Crucial Questions Seminars, which are sponsored by Bridge Ministries of Detroit, Michigan. The seminars and books are designed to greatly enhance your Christian walk. The following comments will help you appreciate the unique features of the book series.
The 3 Crucial Questions series is based on two fundamental observations. First, there are crucial questions related to the Christian faith for which imperfect Christians seem to have no final answers. Christians living in eternal glory may know fully even as they are known by God, but now we know only in part (1 Cor. 13:12). Therefore, we must ever return to such questions with the prayer that God the Holy Spirit will continue to lead us nearer to “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” While recognizing their own frailty, the authors contributing to this series pray that they are thus led.
Second, each Christian generation partly affirms its solidarity with the Christian past by reaffirming “the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3 kjv). ...
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About Women Leaders and the ChurchIn Women Leaders and the Church, author Linda L. Belleville addresses the issues that have polarized Christians for generations. She discusses the three major questions surrounding the controversy: In which ministries can women be involved? What roles should women play in society? Can women hold positions of authority in the church? Belleville looks to the past for answers to these contemporary questions. She examines Greek, Roman, and Jewish societies and compares women’s roles in those cultures to their roles in the early church. With careful scholarship and logical argumentation, she concludes that God gifts women and men equally. Both men and women will benefit from the historical analysis and modern implications of Women Leaders and the Church. |
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