Luter, A. Boyd2019-09-252019-09-252017-01-111996http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/161928"In recent years a number of valuable specialized studies on the women in the Philippian church have appeared.1 Each of them has concluded in one way or another that the female believers spotlighted in Philippians and in Acts 16, where the church at Philippi is born, played quite prominent roles in the development of that congregation that the apostle Paul uniquely commended for “your partnership in the gospel from the ˜rst day until now” (Phil 1:5, NIV).2 By no means, however, have all the ways in which that importance is highlighted (or strongly implied) in the Biblical text been adequately understood or in some cases even noticed. And since Philippi is perhaps the classic NT case study on the roles of women in the founding and developing of a local congregation, Philippians must be seen as an important but underdeveloped resource in the ongoing intramural debate among evangelicals on the ministry of women in the Church"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderWomenChurchPhil 1:5BibleCommunity ethicsSocial ethicsSexual orientation/genderBiblical TheologyNew TestamentBiblical hermeneutics, Interpretation of the BibleArticle