Table of Contents

Introduction - Robert C. Clouse

1. A Traditional View:
Let Your Women Keep Silence - Robert D. Culver
Responses
A Male Leadership Response - Susan T. Foh
A Plural Ministry Response - Walter L. Liefeld
An Egalitarian Response - Alvera Mickelsen

2. A Male Leadership View:
The Head of the Woman Is the Man - Susan T. Foh
Responses
A Traditionalist Response - Robert D. Culver
A Plural Ministry Response - Walter L. Liefeld
An Egalitarian Response - Alvera Mickelsen

3. A Plural Ministry View:
Your Sons and Your Daughters Shall Prophesy - Walter L. Liefeld
Responses
A Traditionalist Response - Robert D. Culver
A Male Leadership Response - Susan T. Foh
An Egalitarian Response - Alvera Mickelsen

4. An Egalitarian View:
There Is Neither Male nor Female in Christ - Alvera Mickelsen
Responses
A Traditionalist Response - Robert D. Culver
A Male Leadership Response - Susan T. Foh
A Plural Ministry Response - Walter L. Liefeld

Afterword - Bonnidell Clouse

Selected Bibliography

Contributing Authors

About the Author

Liefeld (Ph.D., Columbia University) is professor emeritus of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has also served as pastor of Christ Church in Lake Forest, Illinois. Among his several books are New Testament Exposition, Interpreting the Book of Acts and (cowritten with Ruth Tucker) Daughters of the Church.

Alvera Mickelsen has taught at Wheaton College and Bethel College, and has served as editor for Christian Life Magazine, The Conservative Baptist and David C. Cook Publications. In addition to numerous articles, her publications include Better Bible Study, Family Bible Encyclopedia, Understanding Scripture and Women, Authority and the Bible.

Susan T. Foh (M.A., Westminster Theological Seminary) has contributed articles and book reviews to various journals and the chapter "Abortion and Women's Lib" to the book Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Christian Case Against Abortion. She is also the author of Women and the Word of God: A Response to Biblical Feminism.

Robert Culver (Th.M., Th.D., Grace Theological Seminary) has taught at Grace Theological Seminary, Wheaton College, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Northwestern College. He has also served as minister in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches and the Evangelical Free Church. His published work includes numerous articles in books and periodicals as well as a major commentary, Daniel and the Latter Days, and a book on the Christian and the state titled Toward a Biblical View of Civil Government.

Robert G. Clouse (PhD, University of Iowa) was professor emeritus of history at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was also an ordained Brethren minister and served churches in Iowa and Indiana. His books include Meaning of the Millenium, Women in Ministry, War: Four Christian Views and Wealth and Poverty. He also wrote The New Millenium Manual (Baker), Two Kingdoms (Moody), The Story of the Church (Moody) and Puritans, the Millenium and the Future of Israel (Clarke, with Peter Toon).