Plea for scripture ordination: or, ten arguments from scripture and antiquity proving ordination by presbyters without bishops to be valid. By J. Owen Minister of the Gospel. To which is prefixt an ...

This is based, to the quote same document, not on any one text of Scripture, but the “practice of the Church, which has a normative character: in the fact of conferring priestly ordination only ...

It became more liberal in the 20<sup>th century as the Southern Baptist Convention became more confessional and affirmed the inerrancy of Scripture. "Once a church or denomination is untethered from ...

That passage is one of the most difficult to read, not to mention interpret, in the Bible—and spending days immersed in it could retraumatize those who have experienced sexual abuse, said the ...

An article in the Oct. 3 issue of Christianity Today magazine claims the ordination of women is biblical. Author Kenneth S. Kantzer, dean of the Christianity Today Institute, writes that those who … ...

For students hoping to become pastors in the Presbyterian Church (USA), the exegesis exam is already stressful. The dayslong exam—which requires students to answer multiple essay questions about a ...