Women and ordination in the Christian churches : international perspectives / edited by Ian Jones, Kirsty Thorpe and Janet Wootton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Ian, Dr.

Wootton, Janet.

Thorpe, Kirsty.

Series:

T & T Clark theology.

T & T Clark theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ordination of women--Christianity.

Ordination of women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Hermeneutical questions: the ordination of women in the light of Biblical and patristic typology / Frances Young

The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church / Catherine Gyarmathy-Amherd

The ordination of women from an Orthodox perspective / Katerina Karkala-Zorba

Should theological education be different for clergywomen? Doing 'women's work' in a mainline Protestant seminary / Ellen Blue

Doing leadership differently? Women and senior leadership in the Church of England / Rosie Ward

Winifred Kiek: migration and the prophetic role of Congregational women ministers in Australia, 1927-77 / Julia Pitman

Women and ministry within the British Unitarian movement / Ann Peart

The ordination and the consecration of women in the Church of Sweden / Christina Odenberg

The ordination of women in Africa: an historical perspective / Esther Mombo

Women's ordination in the old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht / Angela Berlis

Forever pruning? The path to ordained women's full participation in the Episcopal Church of the USA / Adair T. Lummis

The feminization and professionalization of ordained ministry within the Ma'ohi Protestant Church in French Polynesia / Gwendoline Malogne-Fer

Neither male nor female: tradition, ordination and female leadership in the Nigerian new generation churches / Bolaji Olukemi Bateye

One ministry, separate spheres: the experiences of ordained women in senior leadership in the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom / Helen Cameron, Gillian Jackson

Daughters of Jerusalem, mothers of Salem: Caribbean women in the ministry of the Anglican Church / Rachele E. Vernon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-567-23910-1

1-282-86791-1

9786612867910

0-567-10676-4

OCLC:

676699989