|
|
Article: Women Deacons and Deaconesses: 400 Years of Baptist Service.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Baptist History and Heritage
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Baptist History and Heritage Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Women Deacons and Deaconesses: 400 Years of Baptist Service. By Charles W. Deweese. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, and Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2005. 259 pp.
In Women Deacons and Deaconesses, Charles W. Deweese has written a sound apology for the acceptance of women deacons in Baptist churches. The author does an excellent job of delineating the differences between a woman deacon and a deaconess as well as pointing out the radical differences taken by several Baptist bodies concerning women in the diaconate. This eight-chapter book begins with the General Baptists of the seventeenth century and closes with an examination of women ...