Book Critique

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Brief Summary3

Critical interaction with the author's work4

Egalitarian perspective4

Complementarian Perspective6

Conclusion6

References8

Book Critique

Introduction

The book report is about a book critique of 'Two Views on Women in Ministry' by James R. Becks. The aim of the paper is to provide a brief idea and theme summary of the book. The main part of the paper comprises of the critical interaction on the work of James R. Becks. This book was published in 2005 written by James R. Becks. The author is famous and well known for writing articles presenting and concerning about women in ministry related to their balanced counterparts, adding value to the readers. The author has presented views and counter-arguments in a balanced way. The two views about the women in ministry are somewhat conflicting to the words of God. The different opinions demand the Christians to solve through the problems with care, through comparing and contrasting both sides of views which is dependent upon the framework of Scripture of God.

Brief Summary

The main idea of the book is presenting the ideas of two women and criticizing and giving a critique of their views to the readers. The main theme of the book revolves around Belleville's Egalitarian Perspective and Blomberg's Complementarian Perspective. The book provides a summary of the two views and provides their critique respectively. The book is divided into four sections where the two different views are presented from women in ministry. The book also provides three responses to every view presented. The views of egalitarian and complementarian are presented with the doctrinal and biblical support. The book presents a friendly debate. The author presents the view of Gundry in the start of the book which allows that the Church has views for both views, within the commitment of inerrancy and limits of orthodoxy. The debater and the church are surrounded with a healthy debate of the critical issues. The debate is worthwhile, whether it looks as futile and shifting at times. Through the established scholars, detailed arguments for the egalitarian and complementarian views are presented twice. Each argument is thrice rebutted by equally qualified writers. The book deals with the critique of two main arguments where each position is represented with the overall rebuttal notes ending with a final note.

Critical interaction with the author's work

Egalitarian perspective

The egalitarian perspective supported by Belleville's essay argues women to be given equal status as men in the Christian leadership where the women equally share pastoral duties and church leadership as equal as male Christian leaders. Belleville supports the feminist approach where there is no particular principle and no hierarchy in real practice. She identifies the problem as traditional, backwards and hierarchical view where God is perceived to create men as leaders and women as followers. This argument is held by liberal, egalitarian women where they argue to belong to modern social advancement instead of solid Scriptures which is held by traditional view of the Scripture which is the main issue.

Belleville is the author of different books on various theological ...