BOOK CRITIQUE

Book Critique



Table of Contents

Introduction2

Brief Summary2

Critical interaction with the author's work4

The Complementarian Viewpoint:4

The Egalitarian Viewpoint:5

Conclusion8

References10

Bibliography11

Book Critique

Introduction

Both Blombers (complementarian) and Beck (egalatarian), who are the editors of the book titled 'Two Views on Women in Ministry' consider themselves as being equitable and fair within their evaluation of the number of essays and views. As both editors, in explaining the view of complementation, did opt for using the term 'hierarchialist', and still both of them labeled the famous position as 'complementarian' within the segment initiating the complementarian essays and on the book's cover (Grenz, 1995). On the topic of women's roles within ministry my individual perspective is to some extent amid complementarinism and egalitarianism, I would look for demonstrating that each woman has a role within ministry, even though restricted, by the assessment of these couple of differing viewpoints as given within the principal content by James R. Beck and as weighed against different scholarly publications.

Brief Summary

Even though, the book by James titled 'Two Views on Women in Ministry' comprehensively assesses and noticeably introduces both perspectives of a woman within the ministry, Beck in actual fact fails for unequivocally mentioning both of the perspectives ostensibly within the beginning of the text, even though James did describe the foundation for a book like this one. He seems to be much concerned to describe the disparities within his most recent publication as weighed against the actual text explaining a number of main grounds for the revised edition that comprise of:

The call for the revised theological literature, which replicates the budding dispute that comprises of novel data and evidence, which has surfaced ever since the turn of the century;

Continuing exegetical and theological dispute amongst evangelicals concerning the concerns contiguous to women in church, and

The call for mutual respect or an 'irenic spirit' when discussing about the subjects

It has been stated by Beck that, 'On the whole, we must all stay abreast of cutting-edge scholarship if we are going to participate in this debate effectively'. The contributors of the article have also been mentioned by Beck, whilst explaining his grounds to select merely the scholars of the New Testament, against the scholars of the Old Testament or theologians, being that majority of the theological concerns and texts concerning women in ministry incident in the context of the New Testament. Both Ph.D. of Duke University (Craig Keener) and Ph.D. of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto (Linda Belleville) are lecturers of the biblical literature and studies and are a symbol of the viewpoint of the Egalitarians concerning women in ministry whilst Ph.D. of University of Aberdeen, Scotland (Craig Blomberg) and Thomas Schreiner, embody the conventional viewpoint of the complementarians regarding women in ministry.

Both of these viewpoints that are comprehensively offered within the book are ticketed as the complementarian view and the egalitarian view. The perspective of the complementarians is the additionally conventional viewpoint, which contemplate that men possess right over women in the church as well as in the home, particularly regarding the questions of leadership of ...