Paul King Jewett (October 6, 1919 – September 10, 1991) was an American Christian theologian, author and prominent advocate of the ordination of women and of believer's baptism.
[4][2] Early in his career, Jewett was ordained as a minister in the American Baptist Church.
[4] Jewett is credited with being one of the major instigators of the contemporary Christian egalitarian movement in the evangelical church.
[7] Jewett was an extremely controversial figure in evangelicalism beginning with his book Man as Male and Female which reconsidered traditional theology on the male/female relationship going so far as to suggest Paul was at times chauvinistic and uninspired in some areas of the New Testament epistles.
[8] His last work, co-authored with Marguerite Shuster was meant to be part of a larger systematic theology he was writing but died before completing.