A Publication Affirming Seventh-day Adventist Beliefs

Prove All Things:
A Response to Women In Ministry
Contributors Include Andrews University
Professors and Alumni
Mercedes H. Dyer, Ph.D., Editor
Prove All Things: A Response to Women In Ministry, as the title of our book suggests, examines the recently published book Women in Ministry and points out its merits as well as its shortcomings. The authors of Women in Ministry claim to have shown that the Bible supports women's serving in the headship roles of elder and pastor and that, therefore, the Seventh-day Adventist church should encourage women to seek these roles and should proceed with the process of ordaining them in these capacities.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Mercedes H. Dyer

Part I. Background and Methods in Women in Ministry
1. Theology or Ideology? Background, Methodology, and Content of Women in Ministry
Samuel Koranteng-Pipim
2. A Look at Methods of Interpretation in Women in Ministry
P. Gerard Damsteegt
3. Testimony: What is a Woman Worth?
Rosalie Haffner Zinke

Part II. Biblical Issues
4. Headship, Submission, and Equality in Scripture
Samuele Bacchiocchi
5. The Priesthood of All Believers
P. Gerard Damsteeg
6. Eve a Priest in Eden?
P. Gerard Damsteegt
7. Shapes of Ministry in the New Testament
P. Gerard Damsteegt
8. The Laying On of Hands
P. Gerard Damsteegt
9. Does Paul Really Prohibit Women from Speaking in Church? A Look at 1 Timothy 2:11-15
C. Raymond Holmes
10. One Chilling Word: A Response to Popular Arguments for Women's Ordination
S. Lawrence Maxwell
11. Are Those Things So?--Part I: A Summary and Evaluation of Key Biblical Arguments of Women in Ministry
Samuel Koranteng-Pipim
12. Testimony: He Led Me All the Way
Mercedes H. Dyer

Part III. Historical and Theological Issues
13. A Very Surprising (and Interesting) History
C. Mervyn Maxwell
14. Great Flying Leaps: The Use of Ellen G. White's Writings in Women in Ministry
Larry Kirkpatrick
15. Spiritualism and Women: Then and Now
Laurel Damsteegt
16. Ellen G. White and Women in Ministry
William Fagal
17. Are Those Things So?--Part II:
A Summary and Evaluation of Key Historical and Theological Arguments of Women in Ministry
Samuel Koranteng-Pipim
18. Testimony: Neither Muslim nor Feminist Any Longer
Shakeela Bennett

Part IV. Ordination and Women in Ministry
19. My Daughters' Ordinations
Wellesley Muir
20. Dream On! Young Single Women and the Ministry
Carolyn Stuyvesant
21. Why All the Fuss?
Wellesley Muir
22. The Larger Issues
Jay Gallimore
Epilogue
Mercedes H. Dyer

Appendices
A. Questions and Answers on Women's Ordination (1987)--Affirm, Spring 1987

B. An Appeal to the World Field Regarding the Ministry of Women in the Church (1989)--Adventists Affirm, Fall 1989

C. An Appeal for a Biblical Stand on Women's Ordination (1995)--Utrecht Document

D. A Very Significant Development Regarding Women Pastors: "NAD President's Commission on Women in Ministry--Report"--Adventists Affirm, Fall 1998

Recommended Reading
Scripture Index
Subject Index