Women in Church Office: Is It Biblical?
Ronald Hanko presents a Reformed Protestant argument against the ordination of women to church office, grounding his position in a literalist reading of 1 Timothy 2:12, 1 Corinthians 14:34, and the qualifications passages in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1. The pamphlet defends the complementarian position by asserting the authority and sufficiency of Scripture against cultural-relativistic interpretations of Paul's epistles. This resource will be of interest to those seeking a classical Reformed perspective on gender roles in church leadership and biblical hermeneutics.
Many of the denominations today are admitting woman to the church offices of minister, elder and deacon. They claim that this is the only way to recognize the gifts that God gives to women, and that only in this way does the church do justice to the biblical teaching that are all equal in Christ (Galatians 3:28). Are these claims correct? Does the church deny women the right to exercise their God-given gifts if it denies them the right to serve in the offices of the church? Should women be...