My topic has been stimulated by the fact that just as the TOSC Commission brought Adventist biblical scholars and Church administrators from all over the world to study women’s ordination in advance of the 2015 GC Session (only to see their recommendations ignored in the debate and decision-making process because Elder Ted Wilson, the GC…… Continue reading Man Created God in his Image
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At the Eye of the Storm: Conflict Concerning the Ordination of Women Within the International Seventh-day Adventist Church
For PDF Click here: At the Eye of the Storm: Conflict Concerning the Ordination of Women Within the International Seventh-day Adventist Church Introduction Early Seventh-day Adventism was highly sectarian, with high tension marking its relations with its surrounding sociocultural environment (Stark and Bainbridge 1985:23). This tension meant that it was less constrained by some prevailing…… Continue reading At the Eye of the Storm: Conflict Concerning the Ordination of Women Within the International Seventh-day Adventist Church
Why No to Women but Yes to Killing?
Divisions going their own way on ordination of women would not set a precedent. By Ronald Lawson Ronald W. Lawson, Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, who has published widely on Seventh-day Adventists in sociology journals, is writing a book-length, cross-cultural study of Adventists. He was voted College Teacher…… Continue reading Why No to Women but Yes to Killing?
Ronald L. Lawson Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Queens College, CUNY 