{"id":20897,"date":"2010-01-25T06:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T06:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/philips-daughters\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T06:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T06:43:56","slug":"philips-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/philips-daughters\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip\u2019s Daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Philip\u2019sEstrelda Alexander and Amos Yong, eds., Philip\u2019s Daughters: Women in Pentecostal-Charismatic Leadership<\/em>, Princeton Theological Monograph Series (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2009), 251 pages, ISBN 9781556358326.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking for a historical, biblical, theological, and even philosophical discussion about Pentecostal Charismatic (PC) women in ministry? This collection of twelve essays that resulted from a series of colloquia in 2006-2007 at Regent University is your book. It has a consistent theme from the opening survey by co-editor Alexander and running through the six historical essays and six biblical and theological essays: Pentecostalism has a dialectic or paradox or tension point between its understanding of Spirit empowerment and its application to the callings of women. Does the prophecy of Joel, repeated by Peter in Acts 2, give women equal authority in the Church? Are there sociological and pragmatic barriers that have limited women\u2019s role and status as ministers? Have PC churches lost their original vision of a gender-equal empowerment? Where did early Pentecostals get their ideas about gender equality? What is the history of women in ministry in the three largest Pentecostal bodies in the USA Assemblies of God (AG), the Church of God (COG), and the Church of God in Christ (COGIC)? What about Canadian Pentecostals? Or Hispanic Pentecostalism? Or Asian Pentecostals? These and many other questions are taken up by the writers who represent a broad spectrum of classical Pentecostal and charismatic academicians. Here are a few highlights.<\/p>\n

Janet Everts Powers\u2019 \u201cPentecostalism 101: Your Daughters Shall Prophesy\u201d is a prophetic call to the PC world to recapture the prophetic empowerment of Spirit baptism for ministry and not simply for an emotional experience. Men and women receive a divine unction that qualifies them to speak for God to His people. Powers credits the 19th<\/sup> century Methodist Phoebe Palmer for bequeathing this understanding of the Spirit to 20th<\/sup> century Pentecostals. She offers a challenging rebuttal to the evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem\u2019s definition of prophetic gifts.<\/p>\n

Cheryl Bridges Johns\u2019 \u201cSpirited Vestments: Or Why the Anointing Is Not Enough\u201d critiques the limitations for full ministerial authority to women among PC denominations. Her essay probes classical understanding of theology proper in her description of God\u2019s character and person and its implications for women in ministry. Johns\u2019 solution is to rethink this understanding in terms of a relational model of equality rather than a hierarchical one of subordinationalism.<\/p>\n

Gast\u00f3n Espinosa\u2019s \u201c\u2018Third Class Soldiers\u2019: A History of Hispanic Pentecostal Clergywomen in the Assemblies of God\u201d surveys a history of both the impact of women among Hispanic ministries as well as the gender barriers they faced. He quotes one married woman ministry, \u201cWe\u2019ve got a voice, but we also know our place\u201d (p. 109).<\/p>\n

Frederick L. Ware\u2019s title summaries well his contribution and that of many of the writers in this book, \u201cSpiritual Egalitarianism, Ecclesial Pragmatism, and the Status of Women in Ordained Ministry.\u201d\u00a0 He is optimistic that more doors are opening today for full recognition of women in PC ministry.<\/p>\n

Barbara L. Cavaness\u2019 \u201cLeadership Attitudes and the Ministry of Single Women in Assembly of God Missions\u201d reminds the reader that PC missions was spear-headed by a majority count of women. Ironically a woman missionary occasionally had more ecclesial authority on the mission field than back in North America. Cavaness is also optimistic that more opportunities for women will be opening among PC churches. She exhorts, \u201cProphets hear the sound of women marching\u2014women God is raising up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you hear their footsteps in your church?<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Malcolm R. Brubaker<\/em><\/p>\n

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Estrelda Alexander and Amos Yong, eds., Philip\u2019s Daughters: Women in Pentecostal-Charismatic Leadership, Princeton Theological Monograph Series (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2009), 251 pages, ISBN 9781556358326. Looking for a historical, biblical, theological, and even philosophical discussion about Pentecostal Charismatic (PC) women in ministry? This collection of twelve essays that resulted from a series of colloquia in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":20898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,5720],"tags":[3891],"ppma_author":[4655],"class_list":["post-20897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry-2","category-pneuma-review","category-winter-2010","tag-women-in-ministry","author-malcolmrbrubaker"],"authors":[{"term_id":4655,"user_id":2879,"is_guest":0,"slug":"malcolmrbrubaker","display_name":"Malcolm Brubaker","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dr-malcolm-brubaker.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dr-malcolm-brubaker.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20897"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}