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It either is inappropriate to address this question to the Biblical materials, argues this position, or these materials are inade­quate for the task. The question of women in institutionalized ministry is seen as foreign to Scripture, and/or the instruction of Scripture is deter­mined to be of limited value in the debate (irrelevant or impossibly cul­ture bound

I have not yet read the whole thing but if you are not leading your church by scripture why bother defrocking a lesbian, child molester???

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Thanks for coming by, N3. Read the section "women in the early church."

The section you cited is one of the different ways (she mentions 3(?) of them doesn't she) that people handle the issue of women in the bible.