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Women Deacons and Deaconesses: 400 Years of Baptist Service.(Book review)
Baptist History and Heritage
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March 22, 2006|
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Women Deacons and Deaconesses: 400 Years of Baptist Service. By Charles W. Deweese. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, and Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2005. 259 pp.
In Women Deacons and Deaconesses, Charles W. Deweese has written a sound apology for the acceptance of women deacons in Baptist churches. The author does an excellent job of delineating the differences between a woman deacon and a deaconess as well as pointing out the radical differences taken by several Baptist bodies concerning women in the diaconate. This eight-chapter book ...
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