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.
With this book, church historians Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek present fully translated literary, epigraphical, and canonical references to women in early church offices.
Bradshaw, Paul. Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West. Pueblo Publishing Company: New York, 1990. Brennan, Brian. '''Episcopae': Bishops' Wives Viewed in Sixth-Century Gaul.'' Church History 54 (1985): 311–23.
With this book, church historians Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek present fully translated literary, epigraphical, and canonical references to women in early church offices.
Unde per viros mulieres debent in Deum reduci, non e converso'' (text in Martin, ''Ordination of Women,'' 1:175n131; English translation in Cooke and Macy, History, 1:130n131). 61. ''Item tribus de causis dicitur vir gloria dei et non ...
Professor Saul Newman , and to his father , the late Jeremy Newman , for bringing these to my attention . 132. Letter from Stephen S. Wise to " My dear Lucille , " 51 May 1919 . courtesy of Jeremy U. Newman . 133.
Myra Ferree and Beth Hess ( 1994 : 2-9 ) point , among other factors , to the steadily increasing participation of women in both the labor force and higher education . In 1920 , 27.4 percent of women were ...
This book explores what it means to be "called" to the ministry and how ordination, as we know it, came to be practiced. The book stands as the culmination of an extensive conversation.
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.
Contributing Authors: Fr. John Behr Dr Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou Dr. Dionysios Skliris Fr. Andrew Louth Dr Mary Cunningham Met Kallistos Ware Rev Dr Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Dr Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald Dr Carrie Frederick Frost ...
Quakers Arrive from England Some eight years after the Brents' crisis, there arrived from England in 1656 the first Quakers in this land, including Mary Fisher and Ann Austin. The Quaker belief in the fundamental equality of women and ...