Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: nlt@grad17.cs.duke.edu (N. L. Tinkham) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Wanted: Non-Fundamentalist Christian sect Message-ID: Date: 12 Aug 90 08:48:56 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Duke University CS Dept.; Durham, NC Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Our Revered Moderator writes: > In principle one could accept inerrancy, but still come up with > arguments for ordination of women, based on differences in the social > environment now and in the 1st Cent. But I don't know anyone who > believes in inerrancy and accepts such arguments. So in practice > ordination of women is a fairly good quick test. Evangelicals who accept both the inerrancy of the Bible and the ordination of women do exist, in more than merely token numbers. The name that first comes to my mind is Gilbert Bilezikian, a New Testament professor at Wheaton College; I can come up with a longer list of names if there is interest. (Wheaton requires its faculty to be inerrantists. It's my undergraduate school, so I keep up with the news there.) _Christianity_Today_, a conservative Evangelical periodical, also debates the issue from time to time, with inerrantists arguing both sides of the question. In scanning my copies of _Christianity_Today_ (chiefly to find the correct spelling of "Bilezikian" :-) ), I found in the April 9, 1990 issue (pp. 37-38) a statement titled "Men, Women, & Biblical Equality", arguing from Scripture that women and men should have equal status both in the family and in the church. The content of the statement and its list of 7 authors and over 100 endorsers is worth reading, if only to see the diversity within the Evangelical community. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For Christ plays in ten thousand places, Nancy Tinkham Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his nlt@lear.cs.duke.edu To the Father through the features of men's faces." rutgers!mcnc!duke!nlt