The Role of Women in the Church...

Foreword / Dorothy Patterson -- Backgrounds -- pt.1. The effect of the life of our Lord on the status of women. The mother of our Lord -- The attitude of Jesus toward women -- Women ministerring to Jesus -- Jesus' teaching on divorce -- pt. 2. The role of women in the life of the church during the apostolic age. Women and the founding of the church -- The domestic status of women -- The place of women in church life -- pt. 3. The status of women in the life of the church during the second and third centuries. The age of the apostolic fathers and apologists -- The Alexandrian fathers -- The African fathers -- The third-century church orders -- Conclusions