Kevin D. Paulson writes in response to a paper by Darius Jankewicz, “Hermeneutics of Slavery: A ‘Bible-Alone’ Faith and the Problem of Human Enslavement.” Paulson offers “The Biblical Consensus, Slavery, and Contemporary Adventist Issues.” The document is a PDF format, full-length document.
One argument offered by supporters of women’s ordination is to attempt to compare the approach to interpreting the Bible which some supporters of slavery offered in defense of slavery in the American South, with the interpretational approach of contemporary opponents of women’s ordination.
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Biblical Interpretation Council of Adventist Pastors (CAP) General Conference Session 2015 San Antonio Genesis Historical-grammatical method Larry Kirkpatrick Mike Lambert NAD TOSC Report North American Division (NAD) Ordination Without Regard to Gender OrdinationTruth.com Principle-based Historical-cultural Method Redemptive movement hermeneutic Sabbath Seventh-day Adventist Church Slavery The larger issues Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC) Trajectory theology William Webb Women in Ministry Women's Ordination
NAD's trajectory hermeneutic examined
The North American Division’s 248 page 2013 Theology of Ordination Study Committee Report urged that Seventh-day Adventists adopt a variety of hermeneutical innovations, among them, the “redemptive movement” or “trajectory” hermeneutic. References in the NAD document in support of these ideas included William J. Webb’s book Slaves, Women & Homosexuals. Pastors Larry Kirkpatrick and Mike Lambert share material from that book showing what happens when the people who developed it use their own “principle-based” approach on an issue like the seventh day Sabbath.
The NAD Report refers to William J. Webb’s book, Slaves, Women, & Homosexuals, in footnotes 18 and 19, and in several paragraphs in the report on pp. 26-28. The dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary in Berrien Springs, Michigan, later in the NAD Report also promotes the “redemptive movement” hermeneutic.
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Biblical Interpretation Council of Adventist Pastors (CAP) Distinct roles Doctrine Doctrine of the Church Doctrine of Unity Eugene Prewitt Headship Ordination Without Regard to Gender OrdinationTruth.com Seventh-day Adventist Church Slavery Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC) Unity Women in Ministry Women's Ordination
Eugene Prewitt–The Bible, slavery and women's ordination
Eugene Prewitt, a member of the Theology of Ordination Study Committee, discusses the Bible, slavery, and women’s ordination.