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Alice Mathews

b. 1930

American academic

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About Alice Mathews

Born 1930.

Alice Palmer Mathews (born July 20, 1930) is an American sociologist, author, and radio host known for her scholarship on women's roles in the Christian church. She is the Lois E. Bennett Distinguished Associate Professor Emerita of Educational Ministries and Women's Ministries at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Her papers are held in the Alice Mathews Collection at Baylor University.

Education Alice Mathews was born on July 20, 1930 in New York City and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. Mathews earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Religion and Social Change from the University of Denver jointly with the Iliff School of Theology in 1996. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Michigan State University (1970), a Diplôme in French language and literature from the University of Paris (1965), and a Bachelor of Arts from Bob Jones University (1951).

Selected publications A Woman God Can Use (Discovery House Publishers, 1990) A Woman Jesus Can Teach (Discovery House Publishers, 1991) Preaching That Speaks to Women (Baker Academic, 2003) — Christianity Today 2004 Book Award winner Marriage Made in Eden (Wipf & Stock, 2006) Gender Roles and the People of God: Rethinking What We Were Taught about Men and Women in the Church (Zondervan, 2017)

Personal life Mathews married Randall K. Mathews in 1951.

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