Integration with mainstream feminism is vital and helps us look beyond issues such
as women in church leadership, which, while important, are not the only issues women of faith face.
If you're interested in this topic, be sure to check out Mutuality Series, in which we cover everything
from women in church leadership, to mutual submission in marriage, to gender roles.)
They are surprised because, as a self - described «liberated woman» who
champions women in church leadership and an egalitarian interpretation of Scripture, I don't fit the perceived mold for the submissive wife.
I also asked Pam, Frank, Julie, and Sarah to respond to the question — What makes you most optimistic about the future
for women in church leadership?
I don't necessarily ascribe to the belief that God «wrote the Bible,» and I do believe, as I think you illustrated in a post
about women in church leadership, that much of it was written in a specific time to specific people — therefore, when dealing with the Old Testament, we have to keep in mind the times in which it was written and by whom.
For example, I disagree with complementarian positions that limit the role
of women in church leadership, but I don't think this puts me in the category of «revisionists» who are «open to questioning key evangelical doctrines on theology and culture,» as Belcher asserts on page 46.
On issues such
as women in church leadership, and other religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different, view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».
I can have differences of opinion with my friends about health care or global warming or eschatology or
women in church leadership without taking it personally or holding a grudge.
I sense that Christians are growing more open to
women in church leadership.
Our last conversation about William Webb's Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals certainly generated a lot of responses, particularly concerning the role of
women in church leadership, which means the post accomplished its purposes of highlighting the challenges of applying the teachings of Scripture in today's culture.
In fact, 1Timothy 2 appear in a list of «key texts» on the CBMW site and is commonly cited as biblical justification for limiting the roles of
women in church leadership.
My list of beliefs which «faith» required included; literal creation and a young earth / universe, complete scriptural inerrancy, total abstinence from alcohol,
no women in church leadership, absolutely sexually chaste outside of marriage, homosexuality equals pure abomination, and on and on the list goes.
For the next two days we will be discussing Scot McKnight's case study in the «Blue Parakeet» —
women in church leadership.