Mimi Haddad begins by presenting three views of women, ontology and the implications for authority in the church. She then examines the influence of Greek thought and that of the early Church Fathers on this issue, followed by an historical look at womens leadership in the Early Church, during the Middle Ages, in the Reformation, and concludes with a look at egalitarians in the 1900s.

Workshop Session, 46 mins.
Seeking Justice and Loving Mercy
CBE 10th International Conference, Denver, Colo.

MIMI HADDAD (Ph.D., University of Durham) is president of Christians for Biblical Equality. She is a founding member of the Evangelicals and Gender Study Group at the Evangelical Theological Society, and she served as the convener of the Gender Issue group for the 2004 Lausanne III Conference for World Evangelization.