Mulheres no ministério pastoral batista

Este artigo lida com a questão da presença de mulheres no ministério pastoral em Igrejas Batistas filiadas à Convenção Batista Brasileira. Tendo como referencial teórico, conceitos como ordenação, consagração e imposição de mãos à luz da teologia batista o texto propõe uma abordagem bíblico-teológica da questão. O tema vem recebendo inúmeros debates e discussões por parte dos batistas brasileiros nas últimas décadas, sem consenso entre suas lideranças. A Convenção Batista Brasileira transferiu a responsabilidade da decisão de permitir ou não a presença de mulheres no ministério pastoral para os pastores batistas do Brasil membros da Ordem dos Pastores Batistas do Brasil (OPBB). The OPBB, por sua vez, transferiu a responsabilidade da decisão para as seções regionais de pastores, em cada estado da federação brasileira, que decidiram pela aceitação ou rejeição da matéria. Aspectos pragmáticos ajudam a elucidar a coerência de se conceder a condição de pastoras para as mulheres que já tem servido na liderança de Igrejas Batistas ao longo de sua história, sem, contudo, receber o status de pastoras.This article deals with the question of the presence of women in the pastoral ministry in Baptist Churches affiliated to the Brazilian Baptist Convention. Having as theoretical reference, concepts such as ordination, consecration and imposition of hands in the light of Baptist theology, the text proposes a biblical-theological approach to the question. The theme has been receiving countless debates and discussions on the part of the Brazilian Baptists in the last decades, without consensus among its leaderships. The Brazilian Baptist Convention transferred the responsibility for deciding whether or not to allow the presence of women in the pastoral ministry for the Brazilian Baptists Pastors members of the Brazilian Baptists Pastors Bureau (Ordem dos Pastores Batistas do Brasil - OPBB). The OPBB, in turn, transferred the responsibility of the decision to the regional sections of pastors, in each state of the Brazilian federation, that decided for the acceptance or rejection of the matter. Pragmatic aspects help to elucidate the consistency of granting pastoral status to women who have already served in the leadership of Baptist Churches throughout their history, without, however, receiving pastoral status.

"To read the signs of the time": Ukrainian baptist theology in light of the social transformations challenges in Ukraine and the russian-Ukrainian war

This article describes present day reaction of Ukrainian Baptist community on the current geopolitical situation in Ukraine and its reflection in first modern independent theological steps of named Late Protestant denomination. It is stressed, that complete process of theology creation is a maker of healthy and protected, factually free religious life in certain boundaries of country or land. Also it’s shown that in Ukrainian case for present day’s start of the modern Baptist theology discourse the trigger factor was Revolution of dignity 2013-2014 and de-facto Russian-Ukrainian ongoing war. Ideas and practices raising up in their environment mark how all this impacts the whole Ukrainians and members of Ukrainian Baptist Churches, do they feel themselves as responsible citizens of their country, would they react or not on realities of their country life or not, and do they think about question of their identity (Ukrainian Baptists of Baptists in Ukraine). This entire things signal about deeper processes of final institutionalization of named denomination, its entry into democratic era together with state