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The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical Vision for Church Leadership is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, Dorothy Lee considers evidence from the New Testament and early church to show that women’s ministry is confirmed by the biblical witness. Her comprehensive examination explores the roles women play in the Gospels and the Pauline corpus, with a particular focus on passages that have been used in the past to limit women’s ministry. Lee argues that women in the New Testament are not...

The best place to begin is to consider not the difficult passages but the women who are named across the thirteen letters. More recent attention has moved from statements about women generically to the individual women with whom Paul ministered. The work of these individuals in mission indicates an openness to the active ministry and authority of women that would surprise those who consider the apostle a misogynist. The list in Romans 16 is not an addendum to the letter but
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