Prove All Things / Dyer, Mercedes H, (Ed) / (PB/2000-2000/B+/USED)

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Efforts to ordain women as elders or pastors have proven divisive among Seventh-day Adventists. To overcome the widespread lack of support, Women in Ministry, a recent book authored by twenty Adventist scholars, attempted to offer biblical and historical justification for women's ordination. Are its conlusions valid?
Prove All Things provides clear answers to these and other questions:
-Does believing in women in ministry justify ordaining them as elders or pastors?
-Does the equality of men and women mean they have identical roles?
-Did role distinctions between men and women originate only after the Fall and not at Creation?
-Are men to have spiritual leadership in the home but not necessarily in the church?
-Do "the priesthood of all believers" and "spiritual gifts" eliminate gender role differences?
-Were there some women priests in the Old Testament?
-Did women serve as apostles and ministers in the New Testament?
-Did the apostle Paul interpret Genesis 1-3 incorrectly?
-Did Ellen G White call for women's ordination? Was she herself ordained?
-Did women serve as pastors in early Seventh-day Adventist history?
-Did the 1881 General Conference session vote to ordain women as pastors?
-Are the current feminist movement and spiritualism unrelated to each other?
-Is today's push for women's ordination a "moral imperative." inspired by "the Spirit's leading"?

Prologue
Part I. Background and Methods in Women in Ministry
1. Theology or Ideology?-Background, Methodology, and Content of Women in Ministry
2. A Look at Methods of Interpretation in Women in Ministry
3. Testimony: What is a Woman Worth?

Part II. Biblical Issues
4. Headship, Submission, and Equality in Scripture
5. The Priesthood of All Believers
6. Eve a Priest in Eden?
7. Shapes of Ministry in the New Testament
8. The Laying On of Hands
9. Does Paul Really Prohibit Women from Speaking in Church?
10. One Chillin Word: A Response to Popular Arguments for Women's Ordination
11. Are Those Things So?-Part I: A Summary and Evaluation of Key Biblical Arguments of Women in Ministry
12. Testimony: He Led Me All the Way

Part III. Historical and Theological Issues
13. A Very Surprising and Interesting History
14. Great Flying Leaps: The Use of Ellen G White's Writings in Women in Ministry
15. Spiritualism and Women: Then and Now
16. Ellen G White and Women in Ministry
17. Are Those Things So?-Part II: A Summary and Evaluation of Key Historical and Theological Arguments of Women in Ministry
18. Testimony: Neither Muslim nor Feminist Any Longer

Part IV. Ordination and Women in Ministry
19. My Daughters' Ordinations
20. Dream On! Young Single Women and the Ministry
21. Why All the Fuss?
22. The Larger Issues

Epilogue

Appendices
A. Questions and Answers on Women's Ordination-1987
B. An Appeal to the World Field Regarding the Ministry of Women in the Church-1989
C. An Appeal for a Biblical Stand on Women's Ordination-1995
D. A Very Significant Development Regarding Women Pastors: "NAD President's Commission on Women in Ministry-Report"
Recommended Reading
Scripture Index
Subject Index

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