Journal: Priscilla Papers
Volume: PP 36:2 (Spring 2022)
Article: Book Review "Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, And Practical Perspectives" 3rd Edition, Ivp Academic, 2021 Edited By Ronald W. Pierce, Cynthia Long Westfall, And Christa L. Mckirland
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PP 36:2 (Spring 2022) p. 24

Book Review
Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, And Practical Perspectives
3rd Edition, Ivp Academic, 2021 Edited By Ronald W. Pierce, Cynthia Long Westfall, And Christa L. Mckirland

Reviewed by Dawn Gentry, Jamin A. Hübner, Dorothy A. Lee, Jeff Miller, and Karen Strand Winslow

Dawn Gentry is Executive Director of Adult Ministries at Christ Community Church in Omaha, Nebraska. She has extensive ministerial and academic experience in the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ and is a consecrated minister in the Christian & Missionary Alliance denomination.

Jamin A. Hübner writes on religion, economics, and their intersections. He teaches for University of the People and for Western Dakota Technical Institute in South Dakota.

Dorothy A. Lee teaches New Testament at Trinity College, University of Divinity, in Melbourne, Australia, and is an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Melbourne.

Jeff Miller is editor of Priscilla Papers and teaches biblical studies at Milligan University in eastern Tennessee.

Karen Strand Winslow, an Old Testament specialist, is chair of the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies and director of the Master of Arts in Theological Studies at Azusa Pacific University in southern California.

Introduction, By Jeff Miller

This third edition of Discovering Biblical Equality (DBE), which gathers over thirty essays, is positioned to contribute significantly to the fortifying and flourishing of evangelical gender egalitarianism. Several of its endorsements affirm the earlier editions of DBE and go on to express optimism about this edition as well.1

Several chapters are wholly new (e.g., “Mutuality in Marriage and Singleness: 1 Corinthians 7:1–40” by Ronald W. Pierce and Elizabeth A. Kay, “Gender Equality and the Analogy of Slavery” by Stanley E. Porter, “Human Flourishing: Global Perspectives” by CBE President Mimi Haddad). Certain other essays have been updated (e.g., those by Linda L. Belleville and Aída Besançon Spencer). A few essays remain unchanged, or largely so, from the previous edition. Key examples of unchanged contributions are “‘Equal in Being, Unequal in Role’: Challenging the Logic of Women’s Subordination” by Rebecca Merrill Groothuis (1954 – 2018) and two articles by Gordon D. Fee (“Praying and Prophesying in the Assemblies: 1 Corinthians 11:2–16” and “The Priority of Spirit Gifting for Church Ministry”).2 It...