The Hidden History Of Women S Ordination

Author : Gary Macy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199947065

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The Hidden History of Women's Ordination by Gary Macy Pdf

The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even to recognize that women are capable of ordination. But is the widely held assumption that women have always been excluded from such roles historically accurate? How might the current debate change if our view of the history of women's ordination were to change? In The Hidden History of Women's Ordination, Gary Macy argues that for the first twelve hundred years of Christianity, women were in fact ordained into various roles in the church. He uncovers references to the ordination of women in papal, episcopal and theological documents of the time, and the rites for these ordinations have survived. The insistence among scholars that women were not ordained, Macy shows, is based on a later definition of ordination, one that would have been unknown in the early Middle Ages.

Author : Kevin Madigan,Carolyn Osiek
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0801879329

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Ordained Women in the Early Church by Kevin Madigan,Carolyn Osiek Pdf

Madigan and Osiek assemble relevant material from both Western and Eastern Christendom.--Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, author of Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Early Christianity "Catholic Historical Review"

Author : Fran Porter
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781842279052

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Women and Men After Christendom by Fran Porter Pdf

This book explores the way that gender relationships changed under Christendom and then after Christendom, challenging us to rethink gender relations in both church and society. Fran Porter goes beyond the personal aspects of gender identity to structural, philosophical and theological considerations; and offers a paradigm for gender relationships different to the oppositional models that currently prevail. "This is an accessible read about the complex topic of gender, Christendom and post Christendom. For those seeking to explore the history of gender relationships in the church from the first century this is an excellent introduction." Dianne Tidball, East Midland Baptist Association, UK "Through careful handling of the argument, Fran Porter helps us to glimpse that vision of what the new community of Christ, the new kin-work he inaugurated, could look like - and how the church, in the way she is in the world, can be radical good news for men and women everywhere." Sian Murray Williams, Tutor in Worship Studies at Bristol Baptist College

Author : Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487593841

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Women's History of the Christian Church by Elizabeth Gillan Muir Pdf

Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church. From the earliest female apostle, and the little known stories of the two Marys - the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene - to the enlightened duties espoused by the nun, the abbess, and the anchorite, and the persecutions of female "witches," Muir uncovers the rich and often tumultuous relationship between women and Christianity. Offering broad coverage of both the Catholic and Protestant traditions and extending geographically well beyond North America, A Women's History of the Christian Church presents a chronological account of how women developed new sects and new churches, such as the Quakers and Christian Science. The book includes a timeline of women in Christian history, over 25 black-and-white illustrations, a glossary, and a list of primary and secondary sources to complement the content in each chapter.

Author : Maldari, SJ, Donald, C.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337743

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Christian Ministry in the Divine Milieu by Maldari, SJ, Donald, C. Pdf

Fr. Maldari offers a vision of Christian ministry as a community in which each member actively participates in fostering creation's evolution toward fulfillment. While ministry is ultimately cooperating with God in furthering the process of creation to its fulfillment in salvation, it also humbly recognizes human limitation and dependence upon the Holy Spirit.

Author : Joan Morris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015002809641

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The Lady was a Bishop by Joan Morris Pdf

Author : Ida Raming
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0810848503

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A History of Women and Ordination by Ida Raming Pdf

The Priestly Office of Women: God's gift to a Renewed Church is the English translation of the second edition of Dr. Ida Raming's classic study of the exclusion of women from ordination in the Western Christian Church, The Exclusion of Women from the Priesthood: Divine Law or Sex Discrimination? (SCP, 1976). This new edition includes a bibliography on women's ordination from 1973 to the present plus three recent essays by Dr. Raming and a complete translation of the Latin sources cited by Dr. Raming.

Author : Felice Lifshitz
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823256891

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Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia by Felice Lifshitz Pdf

Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of Mainz and his “beloved,”abbess Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim. This is the first study of these “Anglo-Saxon missionaries to Germany” to delve into the details of their lives by studying the manuscripts that were produced in their scriptoria and used in their communities. The author explores how one group of religious women helped to shape the culture of medieval Europe through the texts they wrote and copied, as well as through their editorial interventions. Using compelling manuscript evidence, she argues that the content of the women’s books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (i.e., resistant to patriarchal ideas). This intriguing book provides unprecedented glimpses into the “feminist consciousness” of the women’s and mixed-sex communities that flourished in the early Middle Ages.

Author : Jill Peterfeso
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823288298

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Womanpriest by Jill Peterfeso Pdf

This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks to reframe and reform Roman Catholic priesthood, starting with ordained women. Womanpriest is the first academic study of the RCWP movement. As an ethnography, Womanpriest analyzes the womenpriests’ actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change. In order to understand how womenpriests navigate tradition and transgression, this study situates RCWP within post–Vatican II Catholicism, apostolic succession, sacraments, ministerial action, and questions of embodiment. Womanpriest reveals RCWP to be a discrete religious movement in a distinct religious moment, with a small group of tenacious women defying the Catholic patriarchy, taking on the priestly role, and demanding reconsideration of Roman Catholic tradition. Doing so, the women inhabit and re-create the central tensions in Catholicism today.

Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725268043

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Women's Ordination in the Catholic Church by John O'Brien Pdf

Women’s Ordination in the Catholic Church argues that women can be validly ordained to ministerial office. O’Brien shows that claims by Roman dicasteries for an unbroken chain of authoritative tradition on the non-ordainability of women—a novel rather than traditional argument—are not historically supported. In the primitive Church, with the offices of deacon, presbyter, and bishop in process of development, women exercised ministries later understood as pertaining to those offices. The sub-apostolic period downplayed women’s ministry for reasons of cultural adaptation, not because it was thought that fidelity to Christ required it. Furthermore, extensive epigraphical evidence, from a wide geographical area, references women deacons and presbyters during the first millennium. Restrictive developments in the concept of ordination from the twelfth century onwards do not negate how, before that, women were validly ordained according to contemporary ecclesial understanding. Repeated canonical prohibitions on ordaining women show both that women were being ordained and how those bans were very selectively implemented. These canons were a cultural practice in search of a theology, and the subsequent theological justifications for restricting ordination to men appealed to supposed female inferiority against the background of priesthood as eminence rather than service. O’Brien shows that the assertion of women’s non-ordainability is a matter of canon law rather than doctrine. As such, that law can be reformed.

Author : Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9780802868572

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Hope and Community by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen Pdf

The culmination of Kärkkäinen's multivolume magnum opus This fifth and final volume of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen's ambitious five-volume systematic theology develops a constructive Christian eschatology and ecclesiology in dialogue with the Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in all its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths--Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. In Part One of the book Kärkkäinen discusses eschatology in the contexts of world faiths and natural sciences, including physical, cosmological, and neuroscientific theories. In Part Two, on ecclesiology, he adopts a deeply ecumenical approach. His proposal for greater Christian unity includes the various dimensions of the church's missional existence and a robust dialogical witness to other faith communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781616430528

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Women Deacons by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer E. Copeland
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630875220

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Feminine Registers by Jennifer E. Copeland Pdf

Women have been adding their voices to the proclamation of the gospel for as long as there has been a gospel to proclaim, but only in the last half-century have these voices become part of the official catalogue of Christian preaching. Diagnosing the distinctiveness of women's voices and exploring the richness they convey about the presence of God requires a detailed look at the meaning-making strategies used by those who preach and those who listen. Register provides a tool for analyzing not only the theological and semantic contributions of women, but also demonstrates how gender impacts the meaning-making possibilities of the sermon. Feminine Registers offers a gendered analysis of preaching that does not rely on essentialist claims about gender and moves the analysis of the preaching beyond sermon content to include the relational dynamics operating between the communicating parties and the medium used to communicate. A critical examination of this constellation of meanings, influenced by gender-related issues of authority and self-disclosure, helps illuminate the production of meaning within the church and expands the homiletical possibilities for the Christian faith.

Author : Michel Aaij,Shannon Godlove
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004425132

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A Companion to Boniface by Michel Aaij,Shannon Godlove Pdf

A survey of the life, historical and political impacts, and textual sources associated with the early medieval English missionary and church reformer Boniface, who was active in the eighth century in what is today Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

Author : Vladimir Latinovic,Gerard Mannion,Jason Welle, O.F.M.
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319985817

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Catholicism Opening to the World and Other Confessions by Vladimir Latinovic,Gerard Mannion,Jason Welle, O.F.M. Pdf

This volume explores how Catholicism began and continues to open its doors to the wider world and to other confessions in embracing ecumenism, thanks to the vision and legacy of the Second Vatican Council. It explores such themes as the twentieth century context preceding the council; parallels between Vatican II and previous councils; its distinctively pastoral character; the legacy of the council in relation to issues such as church-world dynamics, as well as to ethics, social justice, economic activity. Several chapters discuss the role of women in the church before, during, and since the council. Others discern inculturation in relation to Vatican II. The book also contains a wide and original range of ecumenical considerations of the council, including by and in relation to Free Church, Reformed, Orthodox, and Anglican perspectives. Finally, it considers the Council’s ongoing promise and remaining challenges with regard to ecumenical issues, including a groundbreaking essay on the future of ecumenical dialogue by Cardinal Walter Kasper.