The Bible passage in question comes from Judges 19, which tells the story of a concubine who was gang-raped to death before her body was divided into 12 pieces. In the ordination exam, candidates ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nov 4, 2003 / 22:00 pm The opposition to the ordination of the first openly gay bishop in the United States this week isn’t about sex but about Scripture, said Canon Kendall Harmon of South ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 … ...