The Churches Speak On--women's Ordination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Churches Speak On--women's Ordination write by J. Gordon Melton. This book was released on 1991. The Churches Speak On--women's Ordination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Liturgy of the Ordinary
Liturgy of the Ordinary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liturgy of the Ordinary write by Tish Harrison Warren. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Liturgy of the Ordinary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and habits that form us. Each chapter looks at something author Tish Harrison Warren does in a day—making the bed, brushing her teeth, losing her keys—and relates it to spiritual practice as well as to our Sunday worship.
The Ordination of Women
The Ordination of Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ordination of Women write by Paul Jewett. This book was released on 2012-03-01. The Ordination of Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Upon it's publication in 1975, Man As Male and Female, a study of Scripture in which Paul Jewett argues that man and woman are properly related only when they accept each other as equals, received much critical acclaim.Now, in The Ordination of Women, Jewett argues that on the basis of the Christian ideal of the partnership of the sexes, women ought to share fully with men the privileges and responsibilities of church ministry.
Women and Ordination in the Christian Churches
Women and Ordination in the Christian Churches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Ordination in the Christian Churches write by Ian Jones. This book was released on 2011-11-03. Women and Ordination in the Christian Churches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The growth of women's ordained ministry is one of the most remarkable and significant developments in the recent history of Christianity. This collection of essays brings together leading contributors from both academic and church contexts to explore Christian experiences of ordaining women in theological, sociological, historical and anthropological perspective. Key questions include: How have national, denominational and ecclesial cultures shaped the different ways in which women's ordination is debated and/or enacted? What differences have women's ordained ministry, and debates on women's ordination, made in various church contexts? What 'unfinished business' remains (in both congregational and wider ministry)? How have Christians variously conceived ordained ministry which includes both women and men? How do ordained women and men work together in practice? What have been the particular implications for female clergy? And for male clergy? What distinctive issues are raised by women's entry into senior ordained/leadership positions? How do episcopal and non-episcopal traditions differ in this?
The Hidden History of Women's Ordination
The Hidden History of Women's Ordination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden History of Women's Ordination write by Gary Macy. This book was released on 2007-11-30. The Hidden History of Women's Ordination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
