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What Were The Author's Three Strongest Points? What Makes Them Strong?

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Two Views on Women in Ministry Reading Worksheet

Carefully read your assigned chapter and the responses to it then answer the following questions. Give page numbers in parentheses when referring to specific arguments. Be prepared to discuss your answers in class.

1) What were the author’s three strongest points? What makes them strong?
1. One of Keener’s stronger points is found in the beginning of his essay. Throughout his paper he is arguing that the Bible permits women’s ministry under normal circumstances and prohibits it only under exceptional circumstances (207). He starts his argument by providing us with strong examples of women in leadership found in the biblical text. One of his stronger points is found when he is discussing the examples of women who acted as prophetesses in the OT and NT, he gives the models of Deborah, Miriam, Huldah, and Anna (208) Keener recognizes that prophecy is not the same as teacher, but people can still learn from it. (209) He also references Revelations 11:3 to show that a prophetic commission connotes some sort of authority or …show more content…

In his next section, Keener gives us the example of Deborah, the only woman judge in the whole book of Judges. He explains that her reign of maintaining authority over Israel must have been noteworthy and amendable for Judges to have recorded it (271) Later he objects to the notion that God only used women when men were not doing a good enough job. It is here that Keener says, (possibly my favorite quote from the entire essay) “Some object that God appoints women only when men are not getting the job done. Even if one were to grant this premise, it would hardly provide an argument against women’s ministry today, given the fact that perhaps over half the world’s population has yet to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ in a culturally intelligible way and that most of Christ’s church, and presumably many of its teachers, remain too asleep to rise to the call” (211) (*mic

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