Women in the church

ISBN: 0966353129

Author: Everett Ferguson

Condition: New

Product DescriptionDr. Ferguson explains the Biblical role of Christian women in Christ's church. People who respect the Bible as God's Word will find this book very informative and helpful.ReviewAll Christian may serve the Lord, but God in His infinite wisdom has given a variety of roles so that Christians may serve Him in a pleasing manner. Dr. Ferguson sets forth a sound, doctrinal explanation based on Scripture. --RD EricksonAbout the AuthorEVERETT FERGUSON received the degrees of B.A. and M.A. from Abilene Christian University and S.T.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. At Harvard he was an Honorary John Harvard Fellow, a graduate assistant in History of Religions, and gave the Greek oration at the Divinity School commencement in 1956. Dr. Ferguson was Dean at Northeastern Christian Junior College and then a professor at Abilene Christian University, where he was for a time Director of Graduate Studies in Bible and is now Distinguished Scholar in Residence. His professional memberships include the North American Patristics Society, American Society of Church History, Association internationale d études patristiques, Society of Biblical Literature, Conference on Faith and History, Institute for Biblical Research, and Ecclesiastical History Society. Honors include a book dedicated to him, The Early Church in Its Context: Essays in Honor of Everett Ferguson (1998), and an academic colloquy in his honor on Eucharist and Ecclesiology. He has been presented plaques for Christian service by the Institute for Christian Studies, Pepperdine University, Harding University, Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies, and the North American Patristics Society. Professor Ferguson s books include Early Christians Speak--2 volumes, Backgrounds of Early Christianity (now 3rd edition--translated into Korean and Chinese), The Church of Christ: A Biblical Ecclesiology for Today (translated into Korean and Russian), Women in the Church, Thinking-Living-Dying: Early Apologists Speak to the 21st Century, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries, and A Cappella Music in the Public Worship of the Church (now fourth edition). He edited the Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (now 2nd edition), the nineteen-volume Living Word Commentary on the New Testament, and Christian Teaching: Studies in Honor of LeMoine G. Lewis. He also served terms as editor of Restoration Quarterly, The Second Century, and co-editor of Journal of Early Christian Studies. Cascade Books is reprinting his scholarly articles as The Early Church at Work and Worship in three volumes (2013--), and ACU Press is reprinting his semi-scholarly articles as The Early Church and Today in two volumes (2012--). Ferguson served as an elder of the Hillcrest Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas, for nearly twenty years. He and his wife Nancy (Lewis) have three children and six grandchildren.