Ordaining women : new edition with an introduction and notes / B. T. Roberts ; new edition by Benjamin D. Wayman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, B. T., author.

Wayman, Benjamin D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ordination of women.

Women in Christianity.

Women clergy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, 2015.

Summary:

B. T. Roberts saw the exclusion of women from ordination as analogous to racism. His ability to see the new community made possible by Christ offers Christians today a prophetic vision of the difference Christ makes. Roberts's 1891 Ordaining Women takes seriously the scriptural promise that Christ has unmasked the false distinctions and repaired the damaged social arrangements of this world. Like the abolition of slavery, the ordination of women becomes yet another obvious sign of the world made new in Christ. With careful attention to biblical interpretation, church tradition, and empirical evidence, Roberts exposes the biases that have long held captive the Christian imagination. In this new edition, Benjamin Wayman offers an updated and fully annotated version of Roberts's original work and demonstrates the breadth and depth of his analysis. Roberts's vision of the gospel challenges the traditional and still-dominant view of the global church, and invites Christians to reimagine the inclusion of women in ordained ministry. If Christians had for so long been wrong about race, might we today be wrong about gender?

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 10, 2017).

ISBN:

9781498208628

1498208622