Women and the Church/Priesthood

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Contents 1 Criticism 1.1 Source(s) of the Criticism 2 Response 2.1 Early Christian practice 3 Conclusion 4 Endnotes 5 Further reading 5.1 FAIR wiki articles 5.2 FAIR web site 5.3 External links 5.4 Printed material

Criticism

Source(s) of the Criticism

Response

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Early Christian practice

Tertullian says that there were "writings which wrongly go under Paul's name" were forged by a presbyter (Elder) in Asia to give "a license for women's teaching and baptizing."^[1] The necessity of such a forgery would seem to suggest that women did not routinely teach and baptize in the early Church.

Conclusion

Endnotes

1. [back]  Tertulian, "De Baptismo," (17) Ante-Nicene Fathers 3:677. ANF ToC off-site This volume

Further reading

FAIR wiki articles

Apostasy wiki articles

• Apostasy
• Apostasy and the "gates of hell"
• Evidence of the apostasy in the Bible
• Individual versus organizational apostasy
• No complete apostasy?
• Original sin
• Patristic evidence of the apostasy
• Prediction of the apostasy
  • Why does the Church preach to other Christians?

FAIR Priesthood wiki articles

• Bible teachings about priesthood
• Christians don't need a mediating priesthood?
• Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple
• Jesus is the only Melchizedek priesthood holder
• Location of the organization of the Church
• No Paid Ministry
• Priesthood non-transferable?
• Need for priesthood restoration
• Date of the restoration of the Melchizedek priesthood
• Women and the priesthood

FAIR web site

Apostasy FAIR articles

• FAIR Topical Guide: Apostasy and restoration FAIR link
  
• FAIR Topical Guide: Priesthood restoration FAIR link
  
• Roger Keller, "The Apostasy," FAIR 2004 conference. FAIR link
  Dr. Keller is a former Presbyterian minister.

FAIR Priesthood FAIR articles

• FAIR Topical Guide: Priesthood FAIR link
  

External links

Apostasy on-line articles

• Richard L. Anderson, "Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp: Three Bishops between the Apostles and Apostasy," Ensign (August 1976): 51. off-site
• Kent P. Jackson, "Early Signs of the Apostasy," Ensign (December 1984): 8. off-site
• Roger D. Cook, "How Deep the Platonism? A Review of Owen and Mosser's Appendix: Hellenism, Greek Philosophy, and the Creedal "Straightjacket" of Christian Orthodoxy," FARMS Review of Books 11/2 (1999): 265–299. off-site PDF link
• William J. Hamblin and Daniel C. Peterson, "The Evangelical Is Our Brother (Review of How Wide the Divide? A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation)," FARMS Review of Books 11/2 (1999): 178–209. off-site PDF link
• Kent P. Jackson, "Early Signs of the Apostasy," Ensign (December 1984): 8. off-site
• Hyde M. Merrill, "The Great Apostasy as Seen by Eusebius," Ensign (November 1972): 34. off-site
• Hugh W. Nibley, "Evangelium Quadraginta Dierum," Vigiliae Christianae 20 (1966):1-24; reprinted in Hugh W. Nibley, Mormonism and Early Christianity (Vol. 4 of Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by Todd Compton and Stephen D. Ricks, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1987), 10–44. ISBN 0875791271. off-site GospeLink direct off-site
• Dallin H. Oaks, "Apostasy and Restoration," Ensign (May 1995): 84. off-site
• David Stewart, Jr., "The Christian Apostasy," cumorah.com off-site

Priesthood links to articles

• Brian Q. Cannon, "Priesthood Restoration Documents," Brigham Young University Studies 35:4 (1995–96): 162. PDF link (Key source)
• Donald Q. Cannon, Larry E. Dahl, and John W. Welch, "The Restoration of Major Doctrines through Joseph Smith: Priesthood, the Word of God, and the Temple," Ensign (February 1989): 7. off-site
• William G. Hartley, "Review of Gregory L. Prince's Power from On High: The Development of Mormon Priesthood," Brigham Young University Studies 37:1 (1997): 225–230. off-site

Printed material

Apostasy printed materials

• Matthew B. Brown, “Evidences of Apostasy,” in Matthew B. Brown, All Things Restored, 2d ed. (American Fork, UT: Covenant, 2006), 1–32. AISN B000R4LXSM. ISBN 1577347129.
• Noel B. Reynolds (editor), Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2005), 1. ISBN 0934893020. off-site  (Key source)

Priesthood printed materials

• Richard Lloyd Anderson, "The Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration," Improvement Era (71/9 (September 1968)): 15–24. GospeLink
• Richard Lloyd Anderson, "The Second Witness on Priesthood Succession," Improvement Era (September 1968): 14–20. GospeLink
• Brain Q. Cannon and BYU Studies staff, "Seventy Contemporaneous Priesthood Restoration Documents," in Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820–1844 (Documents in Latter-day Saint History), edited by John W. Welch with Erick B. Carlson, (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press / Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 2005), 215–263. ISBN 0842526072. (Key source)