I’ve been reading Hugh Hewitt’s Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World, which compares blogging to the Gutenberg printing press, the evils of cultural elite punditry of left-wing bias to the evils of Catholic indulgences, the undoing of the Main-Stream Media to the undoing of the medieval Catholic Church. Just as Luther […]
Reviews are coming out now on the two big recent 2005 books in the evangelical feminism and biblical manhood and womanhood shootout. Evangelical Quarterly [78.1 (2006), 65-84] has an article, “Biblical truth and biblical equality: a review article on two recent books from IVP on evangelical feminism and biblical manhood and womanhood,” reviewed by […]
Ephesians 6:12 in the KJV reads: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Both the NIV and TNIV read: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the […]
Quite a large percentage of Christian churches are not very open to winning the lost to Christ. They set up all sorts of barriers that put seekers off, including weird sub-cultural behaviors and even stranger theological interpretations based on non-understanding of ancient cultures, or worse, on just their own sub-cultures and ways of understanding […]
Andy Rowell has posted a couple of excellent bibliographies regarding women in ministry on his blog:
Bibliography of Books - Egalitarian and Complementarian
Bibliography of Commentaries on the Problem Passages
Jesus seems like a pretty out-front guy, not particularly enamored with the status quo or afraid to do something new and shocking. Why didn’t he choose a woman to be among his twelve?
This is a fair question because Jesus related to women as equals and women were certainly among his most devoted disciples and […]
Over the past two decades, an extremely aggressive and clamorous battle of Biblical scholars has occurred over the meaning of one word in I Timothy 2:12: the Greek word authentein, which is translated as “usurp authority” in the KJV, as “have authority” in the NIV, as “assume authority” in the TNIV, and as “domineer […]
Guess who recently said this: “Male chauvinism has been the major problem through much of history. For most cultures through most of history the most serious deviation from biblical standards regarding men and women has not been feminism, but harsh and oppressive male chauvinism. It still exists today, not only in some […]
Some heirarchicalists teach that male headship was instituted by God as a part of creation and must therefore be permanent for all times and places. Even if headship were mentioned in the creation story of Genesis, it does not follow that it must be permanent. In Genesis 2:2-3 God creates a seventh day […]
My son-in-law sent me a Web link to the Assemblies of God Women in Ministry page. While pentacostals and charismatics also struggle with the truth of egalitarian approaches to church and family, there has for a very long time been a strong support of women within their churches and theology that many evangelical churches […]