This resource is presented with the hope that women will realize their potential to lead in roles other than pastorate in their local congregations. It is to be noted that non-denominational and denominational leaders have written articles based on their pre-supposed positions of women and their leadership roles in the church.
- Women Church Leaders in the New Testament
- Bible Women
- The New Testament Church—The Role of Women
- What Does the Bible Say About Women in Ministry?
- References on the history of women in the early Christian Church
- Brock, Sebastian and Harvey, Susan, trans. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, updated edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
- Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
- Coon, Lynda. “God’s Holy Harlots: The Redemptive Lives of Pelagia of Antioch and Mary of Egypt.” In Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
- MacDonald, Margaret. “Reading Real Women through Undisputed Letters of Paul.” In Women and Christian Origins edited by Ross Sheppard Kraemer and Mary Rose D’Angelo. Oxford: University Press, 1999.
- Stagg, Evelyn and Frank. Woman in the World of Jesus. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1978.
- Stagg, Frank. New Testament Theology. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1962.
- Torjesen, Karen Jo. When Women were Priests: Women’s Leadership in the Early Church & The Scandal of their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publisher, 1995.
- Wiley, Tatha. Paul and the Gentile Women: Reframing Galatians New York: Continuum, 2005.
- Witherington, Ben III. Women in the Earliest Churches. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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- Bechtel, Lyn M. (1996), “A Symbolic Level of Meaning: John 2.1-11 (The Marriage in Cana)”, in Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament (1st ed.), Sheffield, U.K.: Sheffield Academic Press
- Fiddes, Paul S. ‘ “Woman’s head is man”: a doctrinal reflection upon a Pauline text.’ Baptist Quarterly 31.8, 1986. 370-83
- Fiddes, Paul S. (1990), “‘The status of women in the thought of Karl Barth'”, in Janet Martin Soskice, After Eve [alternative title After Eve: women, theology and the Christian tradition] (1st ed.), London: Marshall Pickering
- Fontaine, Carole R. (1996), “Disabilities and Illness in the Bible: A Feminist Perspective”, in Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament (1st ed.), Sheffield, U.K.: Sheffield Academic Press
- Kripal, Jeffrey John. (2007), The Serpent’s Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
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