---
title: 'Woman in the Church'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas Dwight Witherspoon, Sr.'
date: 1889-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Ephesians 5'
- 'Titus 2'
- 'Judges 4'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/witherspoon-1889-woman-in-the-church
---

# Woman in the Church

1889 Presbyterian Quarterly article: affirms women's broad service in the church but argues Scripture bars them from ordained ministry and teaching authority over men.

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