Women in the Church

1. BRI and Women’s Ordination The issue of women’s ordination to the pastoral ministry has been with the Seventh-day Adventist Church for many decades. With the new developments this quinquennium, BRI members were asked to participate in various committees. Some wrote papers; a few addressed the ...

Gerhard Pfandl with Daniel Bediako, Steven Bohr, Laurel and Gerard Damsteegt, Jerry Moon, Paul Ratsara, Ed Reynolds, Ingo Sorke, and Clinton Wahlen The issue of the ordination of women, which is part of a modern trend in society, is currently presenting a challenge to the unity of the Seventh-day...

Some people do good works because they believe that by doing them they may have a better chance to be saved. Others do good deeds because they are grateful for God’s gracious gift of redemption and want to follow the example of their Master. Should Christians do good works? Yes. The Bible repeate...

Preface Although the Seventh-day Adventist Church draws its faith and doctrine from the Bible only ( sola scriptura ), it sees the work of Ellen G. White as a particular fulfillment of the gifts of the Holy Spirit to the church and a special bestowal of the “spirit of prophecy” in the end of time...

Creation of Woman—Her Status Two passages in the opening chapters of Genesis deal with the origin of woman. The first forms a part of the sublime summarization of Creation; the second is found in the supplementary account which supplies the details of her creation (Gen 1:26-28; 2: 18-24). In the ...

The basic content of 1 Tim 2 deals with prayer and worship. In vss. 1-2 Paul urges prayers for kings and all those in authority; in vs. 8 he exhorts men to pray without anger or disputing; in vss. 9-10 he counsels women to dress modestly with decency and propriety; in vss. 11-15 he forbids women ...

Jesus Championed Women’s Rights In recent years more than one author has described Jesus as a champion of women. Is such a designation justified by Christ’s words and acts as preserved in the four Gospels? A casual examination of the tradition as presented in the Gospels does not indicate that H...

The purpose of this study is to survey briefly the climate of opinion regarding the place of women among the Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the first century. This is the cultural setting in which the Christian church originated and began its development. Since the church rose in the midst of Judais...

General Observations The task of this study will be to survey the role of women in the OT outside the Pentateuch. Since the Pentateuch reflects the legal more explicitly than the social aspects of this subject, a study of the historical, prophetic, hymnic, and wisdom literature will allow for a w...

The purpose here is to show the status of woman as presented in the Pentateuch as far as her position in society and law were concerned. It is vital that the original status given to woman by God at creation be reviewed and that the study give an overview of the changed status resulting from the ...