Faculty Publications

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

7-2013

Abstract

This paper will investigate the views of the status of women in the church and whether women were ordained as elders, bishops, or priests in certain periods of the history of the Christian Church. The main focus of this paper will be on the Early Church, the Reformation, and Post-Reformation eras. The sources for the early church are limited to the early church fathers, and for the Reformers to their commentaries on the Bible. Martin Luther and John Calvin have been chosen because of their emphasis on the Bible as the rule for doctrine and practice, which was adopted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. John Wesley was selected as representing Methodism, the practices of which strongly impacted Adventist pioneers. The ordination of deaconesses will not be discussed in this paper

Comments

This paper was presented at the July 2013 Theology of Ordination Study Committee meeting and approved for release

Acknowledgements

Retrieved December 15, 2015, from https://www.adventistarchives.org/womens-status-and-ordination-as-elders-or-bishops-in-the-early-church.pdf

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