Aida Besancon Spencer (born 1947) is a Dominican-American New Testament professor and
Presbyterian minister
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.
Career
Spencer is Professor of New Testament at
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in
South Hamilton, Massachusetts
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. She has written on
The Apostle Paul
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, Paul's Literary Style,
Women in Christianity
The roles of women in Christianity have varied since its founding. Women have played important roles in Christianity especially in marriage and in formal ministry positions within certain Christian denominations, and parachurch organizations. In ...
and the New Testament from a Hispanic perspective.
On the
hermeneutical
Hermeneutics () is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretative principles or methods used when immediate c ...
issues of
1 Timothy 2:12, she and Wheaton New Testament scholar Gilbert Bilezikian have argued that the author's prohibition on women speaking in the congregation was only intended to be a temporary response to women who were teaching error.
Personal life
Spencer was born in
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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, webs ...
, to Frederick H. (a
comptroller
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) and Aída (a business entrepreneur and homemaker; maiden name, Guzman) Besançon. She is married to William David Spencer, who is a writer, minister, and educator. They cowrite the blog Applying Biblical Truths Today since 2012. They began (2009) and edit the Africanus Journal and the House of Prisca and Aquila series. Their son, Stephen William Spencer, is the director of programming at Salem public access cable station.
Publications
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References
External links
* https://www.gordonconwell.edu/faculty/senior/aida-spencer
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1947 births
Living people
American Presbyterian ministers
People from Santo Domingo
20th-century American Presbyterian ministers
21st-century Presbyterian ministers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American religious writers