Hearing Her Voice: A Case for Women Giving Sermons

By John Dickson

Based on his study of a key word for 'teaching' in the New Testament---an activity often thought to be prohibited to women---and on various other kinds of public speaking in which women in Scripture clearly participated, scholar John Dickson builds a case for women preachers. Focused and purposefully limited in its conclusions, Dickson's argument has potential to change minds and appeal to complementarians and egalitarians alike.
The mediating and widely adoptable position in this original digital short will appeal to pastors, Bible teachers, college and seminary students, professors, and lay leaders in the church with its fresh approach to the hot-button topic of women in ministry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release date: Dec 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9780310498193

John Dickson

John Dickson (PhD, Macquarie University) serves as the Jean Kvamme Distinguished Professor of Biblical Evangelism and Distinguished Scholar in Public Christianity at Wheaton College. A speaker, historian, and media presenter, John is the author of more than 20 books, two of which became television documentaries. He also cohosted the documentary For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than you Ever Imagined. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney, a Visiting Academic in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University (2016-2021), and Distinguished Fellow in Public Christianity at Ridley College Melbourne. John presents Australia’s no.1 religion podcast, Undeceptions, exploring aspects of life, faith, history, culture, or ethics that are either much misunderstood or mostly forgotten.

Reviews for Hearing Her Voice

[eclecticdodo · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

A short book arguing that the prohibition for women teaching (1 Tim 2:12) does not apply to the modern day sermon. Sermons more closely equate to the task of exhortation, which isn't restricted to men. I found the writing somewhat repetitive, returning to the same points again and again. I'm also not entirely convinced by the argument. However, it does provide food for thought.