Women S Ordination In The Catholic Church

Author : Ida Raming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9783643962652

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55 Years of Struggle for Women's Ordination in the Catholic Church by Ida Raming Pdf

55 years of struggle for women's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church - this lifelong effort by the theologian Ida Raming - together with her pioneering compatriots, some of whom have passed away - are described in this documentation. She is deeply convinced that a fundamental renewal of the church can only be achieved together with women who are no longer subject to discrimination - and not without them. Beginning with the Vatican Council (1962 - 1965), this endeavor has stretched across several phases of church history all the way into the present. Numerous documents bearing witness to internal church developments, conflicts and international movements are related in a vivid, gripping manner from the perspective of the author. The international Women Priests Movement (RCWP/ARCWP), its inception and development, is also described in this context. This documentation offers an excellent aid in studying the epoch of church history dating from 1962.

Author : J. N. M. Wijngaards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0232524203

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The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church by J. N. M. Wijngaards Pdf

Wijngaards presents a bold and forceful challenge to a community which has come to accept the inhuman consequences of individualism – always looking the other way. He examines the historical evidence and carefully dismantles the theological and scriptural arguments that deny ordination to women.

Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Al Loschiuk
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0533153581

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Priestly Ordination of Women by Al Loschiuk Pdf

A fair-minded deconstruction of the Church's dogmatic defense of it's all-male priesthood, concluding that it is morally wrong and theologically indefensible. A timely work reminding us that this divisive problem will not go away.

Author : Ida Raming
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Anne Marie Gardiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Clergy
ISBN : UCAL:B3884438

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Women and Catholic Priesthood by Anne Marie Gardiner Pdf

Author : Gary Macy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019804089X

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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? In the early centuries of Christianity, ordination was the process and the ceremony by which one moved to any new ministry (ordo) in the community. By this definition, women were in fact ordained into several ministries. A radical change in the definition of ordination during the eleventh and twelfth centuries not only removed women from the ordained ministry, but also attempted to eradicate any memory of women's ordination in the past. The debate that accompanied this change has left its mark in the literature of the time. However, the triumph of a new definition of ordination as the bestowal of power, particularly the power to confect the Eucharist, so thoroughly dominated western thought and practice by the thirteenth century that the earlier concept of ordination was almost completely erased. The ordination of women, either in the present or in the past, became unthinkable. References to the ordination of women exist in papal, episcopal and theological documents of the time, and the rites for these ordinations have survived. Yet, many scholars still hold that women, particularly in the western church, were never "really" ordained. A survey of the literature reveals that most scholars use a definition of ordination that would have been unknown in the early middle ages. Thus, the modern determination that women were never ordained, Macy argues, is a premise based on false terms. Not a work of advocacy, this important book applies indispensable historical background for the ongoing debate about women's ordination.

Author : Benjamin R. Knoll,Cammie Jo Bolin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190882372

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She Preached the Word by Benjamin R. Knoll,Cammie Jo Bolin Pdf

She Preached the Word is a landmark study of women's ordination in contemporary American congregations. In this groundbreaking work, Benjamin R. Knoll and Cammie Jo Bolin draw upon a novel collection of survey data and personal narrative interviews to answer several important questions, including: Who supports women's ordination in their congregations? What are the most common reasons for and against women's ordination? What effect do female clergy have on young women and girls, particularly in terms of their psychological, economic, and religious empowerment later in life? How do women clergy affect levels of congregational attendance and engagement among members? What explains the persistent gender gap in America's clergy? Knoll and Bolin find that female clergy do indeed matter, but not always in the ways that might be expected. They show, for example, that while female clergy have important effects on women in the pews, they have stronger effects on theological and political liberals. Throughout this book, Knoll and Bolin discuss how the persistent gender gap in the wider economic, social, and political spheres will likely continue so long as women are underrepresented in America's pulpits. Accessible to scholars and general readers alike, She Preached the Word is a timely and important contribution to our understanding of the intersection of gender, religion, and politics in contemporary American society.

Author : Sara Butler
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1595250166

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The Catholic Priesthood and Women by Sara Butler Pdf

Author : Lavinia Byrne
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780264673356

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Woman At The Altar by Lavinia Byrne Pdf

A reasoned case for the ordination of women to the Roman Catholic priesthood, arguing that the ordination of women is the logical conclusion to all the recent work of Catholic theology about women.

Author : Church of England. House of Bishops
Publisher : Church House Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0715137212

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The Ordination of Women to the Priesthood by Church of England. House of Bishops Pdf

This work presents a consideration of the theological issues involved in the question of the ordination of women to the priesthood.

Author : Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics William G Witt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481313185

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Icons of Christ by Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics William G Witt Pdf

The pastoral office is one of the most critical in Christianity. Historically, however, Christians have not been able to agree on the precise nature and limits of that office. A specific area of contention has been the role of women in pastoral leadership. In recent decades, three broad types of arguments have been raised against women's ordination: nontheological (primarily cultural or political), Protestant, and Catholic. Reflecting their divergent understandings of the purpose of ordination, Protestant opponents of women's ordination tend to focus on issues of pastoral authority, while Catholic opponents highlight sacramental integrity. These positions are new developments and new theological stances, and thus no one in the current discussion can claim to be defending the church's historic position. Icons of Christ addresses these voices of opposition, making a biblical and theological case for the ordination of women to the ministerial office of Word and Sacrament. William Witt argues that not only those in favor of, but also those opposed to, women's ordination should embrace new theological positions in response to cultural changes of the modern era. Witt mounts a positive ecumenical argument for the ordination of women that touches on issues such as theological hermeneutics, relationships between men and women, Christology and discipleship, and the role of ordained clergy in leading the church in worship, among others. Uniquely, Icons of Christ treats both Protestant and Catholic theological concerns at length, undertaking a robust engagement with biblical exegesis and biblical, historical, systematic, and liturgical theology. The book's theological approach is critically orthodox, evangelical, and catholic. Witt offers the church an ecumenical vision of ordination to the presbyterate as an office of Word and Sacrament that justifiably is open to both men and women. Most critically Witt reminds us that, as all people are image-bearers of the divine, so men and women both are called to serve as icons of Christ in service of the gospel. --Alan G. Padgett, Professor of Systematic Theology, Luther Seminary

Author : Kevin Madigan,Carolyn Osiek
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000000957617

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The Churches Speak On--women's Ordination by J. Gordon Melton Pdf

Author : Jill Peterfeso
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,5 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.