'Women In Office' In Relation To The Role Of Deacons And Their Delegation To 'Major' Assemblies: Testing Another Approach To A Debate Within The Christian Reformed Church

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Cameron FRASER



Author(s):  
Bert F. Polman ◽  
John D. Witvliet


2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-247
Author(s):  
Rich Janzen ◽  
Steve van de Hoef ◽  
Alethea Stobbe ◽  
Allyson Carr ◽  
Joshua Harris ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Van Dyken

This article reconfigures the conventional understanding of second wave feminism and feminists through an analysis of the Committee for Women in the Christian Reformed Church (CW-CRC). Rather than challenging societal and denominational norms, the CW-CRC used the normative expectations and structures of the Christian Reformed Church in order to bring about a fundamental change in practice and a reformation in scriptural understanding. Tying gender equality to the theology of the denomination, the women of the Committee defined acceptance of women’s equal authority in the church as a theological necessity—something that was not just morally or ethically right, but biblically right. Regardless of their association with the term feminist or their alignment with conventional methods and arguments of second wave feminism, the members of the CW-CRC—and the women they sponsored—were working toward gender equity. Recognizing their unique means of enacting reform suggests fluidity in the social markers of feminism.



2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Soko ◽  
H. Jurgens Hendriks

This article is descriptive in nature and a practical theological assessment of the schisms that took place in the Reformed Church in Zambia (RCZ) between 1996 and 2001. It analyses empirical evidence to find an answer to the question why it happened. Pentecostal or charismatic tendencies have challenged the long inherited tradition of mainline churches. Subsequently, Pentecostal or charismatic movements have caused intense conflict in the church between the pro-conservatives and pro-Pentecostals. In the RCZ this led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) in 1999 and the Bible Gospel Church in Africa (BIGOCA) in 2001.





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