Christian CADRE Egalitarian Links

Sites Promoting a Broad Equalitarian View

• Christians for Biblical Equality Christians for Biblical Equality is a non-profit organization comprised of individual and church members from over 80 denominations who believe that the Bible, properly interpreted, teaches the fundamental equality of men and women of all racial and ethnic groups and all economic classes.
  
• About Biblical Equality "About Biblical Equality" is intended as a referral resource for Christians studying the so called "hard passages" on women in the Bible.
  
• Egalitarian Christian Alliance The site owners believe in fundamental equality of all people, regardless of gender, race, or class. The site explores and experiences that equality from the standpoint of orthodox Christianity.
  
• Douglas & Rebecca Merrill Groothuis Website for Rebecca Merrill Groothuis, author of Good News for Women, who offers additional articles articulating a clear, cogent and persuasive statement for the egalitarian view of marriage and church order. Leaving no logical or theological stone unturned, she critiques the case for traditionalism, develops the biblical picture of gender equality from the whole of Scripture, and meticulously examines biblical texts that have been used to prevent women from exercising certain gifts in the church or creating equal partnership in marriage.
  
• What About Those Who Say Christianity Promotes Male Domination over Women? An article on the equality of women from a Biblical perspective by Douglas Groothius.
  
• What the Bible says about Women's Ordination A multi-page presentation about the role of women in the New Testament from Religious Tolerance.org. (Note: The article asserts that "that many books [of the New Testament] were not written by the authors that they claim to be written by"--a view not shared by all members of the CADRE.)
  
• God's Word To Women - Scripture This website contends that the present-day attitude in the church toward women comes identified with tradition and human precepts rather than Bible truth. When the church is cleansed of denominationalism; human tradition; prejudice that includes race, gender status or class; bondage to culture; and customs, then the church will be ready to demonstrate the unity and the oneness for which our Lord prayed in John 17.
  
• The BibleTexts.com Topical Index: Roles and treatment of women in the Bible Articles on the Biblical treatment of women, women in church history, God as father and mother, homeschooling, textual bias and ordination.
  
• Who should be called father? Paul of Tarsus between the Jesus tradition and patria potestas by S. Scott Bartchy originally published in Biblical Theology Bulletin, Winter, 2003. "Perhaps Jesus' most startling challenge to patriarchal authority is found in the material unique to the Gospel according to Matthew 23:9 (NRSV): 'Call no man father on earth, for you have one Father--the one in heaven.'"
  
• Mrs Murphy's Arising from the Pew.(feminist theology) by Ninna Edgardh Beckman originally published in The Ecumenical Review, Jan, 2001. "The aim of my analysis is to probe the potential of a feminist ecclesiological perspective for the ongoing feminist renewal of Christian liturgy. In which way can feminist ecclesiology contribute to solve the problems inherent in a feminist Christian liturgical project? What does a feminist ecclesiological perspective make visible, in contrast to other perspectives?"

Biblical Equality and Human Rights

A Critique Of Contemporary Egalitarianism, Part I and Part II by Louis J Pojman.

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A More Traditional View

Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism.
An On-line Book from Leadership University Working Through the Roles of Men and Women in the Bible