Women in Ministry

Multiple Perspectives.

Gregory A. Boyd, Paul R. Eddy, Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology: Second Edition, [Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009], Chapter 15: The Women in Ministry Debate, pp. 249-260.

Linda L. Belleville, et al., Two Views on Women in Ministry: Revised Edition, [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005].

Bonnidell Clouse, Robert G. Clouse, eds., Women in Ministry: Four Views, [Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1989].

Sue Edwards, Kelley Mathews, 40 Questions About Women in Ministry, [Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2022].

An Attempt at Ecumenism.

Andrew Bartlett, Men and Women in Christ: Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts, [London: Inter-Varsity Press, 2020]. Preview.

Michelle Lee-Barnewall, Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate, [Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016]. Preview.

Egalitarianism.

Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis, gen. eds., Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, [Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2005].

Philip B. Payne, Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul’s Letters, [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009].

Cynthia Long Westfall, Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle’s Vision for Men and Women in Christ, [Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016].

Craig S. Keener, Paul, Women & Wives: Marriage and Women’s Ministry in the Letters of Paul, [Peabody: Hendrickson, 1993].

John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Partners in Christ: A Conservative Case for Egalitarianism, [Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2015].

Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible: Revised Edition, [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016].

Kristina LaCelle-Peterson, Liberating Tradition: Women’s Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective, [Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008].

Nate Pyle, Man Enough: How Jesus Redefines Manhood, [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015].

Carroll D. Osburn, Women in the Church: Reclaiming the Ideal, [Abilene: ACU Press, 2001].

R. T. France, Women in the Church’s Ministry: A Test-Case for Biblical Hermeneutics, [Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1995].

Ben Witherington III, Women in the Earliest Churches, [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988].

Complementarianism.

John Piper, Wayne Grudem, eds., Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism, [Wheaton: Crossway, 2021]. See also: desiringgod.org/books/ and archive.org.

Wayne Grudem, Evangelical Feminism & Biblical Truth: An Analysis of More Than One Hundred Disputed Questions, [Sisters: Multnomah Publishers, 2004].

Stephen B. Clark, Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences, [Ann Arbor: Servant Books, 1980].

Andreas J. Köstenberger, Margaret E. Köstenberger, God’s Design for Man and Woman: A Biblical-Theological Survey, [Wheaton: Crossway, 2014]. Preview.

Andreas J. Köstenberger, Thomas R. Schreiner, Women in the Church: An Interpretation and Application of 1 Timothy 2:9-15, [Wheaton: Crossway, 2016]. Preview.

James B. Hurley, Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective: A Study in Role Relationships and Authority, [Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1981].

Robert L. Saucy, Judith K. TenElshof, gen. eds., Women and Men in Ministry: A Complementary Perspective, [Chicago: Moody Press, 2001].

John Piper, What’s the Difference? Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible, [Wheaton: Crossway, 2001]. See also: desiringgod.org/books/. 

John Piper, Wayne Grudem, 50 Crucial Questions About Manhood and Womanhood, [Wheaton: Crossway, 2016]. See also: desiringgod.org/books/. 

καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν ~ Soli Deo Gloria