by
Patrick Henry Reardon
By submitting this article in response to Dr. Thomas Torrance I intend, in
the first place, to pay my respects. When I read his recent argument favoring
the ordination of women (“The Ministry of Women,”
Touchstone 5.4,
Fall 1992), I felt that the author had to be answered. Not that the lines of
his argument are either especially persuasive or particularly original.
I believe that they are neither, having used some of them myself back when
I was an Evangelical Protestant and thought women’s ordination an idea
whose time had come. But Dr. Torrance is Dr. Torrance, after all, and anything