Paul King Jewett

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Paul King Jewett (d. 1991) was a Christian theologian, author and prominent advocate for the ordination of women. He taught systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena.

Jewett is credited with being one of the major instigators of the contemporary Christian egalitarian movement in the evangelical church.^[1] In 1975 his book Man as male and female was published. This work reconsiders the biblical evidence for the role of men and women and argues that Paul was speaking as inspired by God when he argued from the equality of women, but with a Jewish rabbinic mindset when speaking of women as subordinate to man. Jewett called Galatians 3:28 the "Magna Carta of humanity".

In The Ordination of Women (1980), Jewett responded to the traditional arguments for a male-only clergy.

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Man as Male and Female: A Study in Sexual Relationships from a Theological Point of View. Eerdmans, 1975.
The Ordination of Women: An Essay on the Office of Christian Ministry. Eerdmans, 1980.
Infant Baptism and the Covenant of Grace: An Appraisal of the Argument That As Infants Were Once Circumcised, So They Shoud Now Be Baptized. Eerdmans, 1978.
The Lord's Day. Fuller Seminary Bookstore, 1978.
God, Creation, and Revelation: A Neo-Evangelical Theology. Eerdmans, 1991.
Who We Are: Our Dignity As Human : A Neo-Evangelical Theology. (Edited by Marguerite Shuster) Eerdmans, 1996.