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...

It is possible that a closer look at our theology of ordination might help to resolve other delicate problems, among which is the issue of the ministry of women. Neglected for so long, this problem is at present a preoccupation of churches around the world. Each church, of course, will answer it ...

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 ...

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 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...

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 opening chapters of Genesis (1-3) are of crucial importance for both the origins of our world and also the origin, beginnings, and determining relationships of man and woman. As such they set the stage for a biblical concept of man’s interrelationships, without which any understanding of the ...

The Christian church is that body of people who have been reconciled to God and their fellow men in Jesus Christ. They are all members of a body of which Christ is the head (Eph 1:22, 23). The Christian life, however, the new life in Christ within the church, is not its own end. Christians care ...