The hidden history of women's ordination : female clergy in the medieval West / Gary Macy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macy, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ordination of women--Europe--History--To 1500.

Ordination of women.

Ordination--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Ordination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even recognise that women are capable of ordination. But is the widely held assumption that women have always been excluded from such roles historically accurate? Gary Macy investigates in this text.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations

1. The State of the Question

2. What Did Ordination Mean?

3. The Ministry of Ordained Women

4. Defining Women Out of Ordination

5. Conclusion

Historical and Theological Postscript

Appendix 1: Prayers and Rites for the Ordination of a Deaconess

Appendix 2: Ordination Rites for Abbesses from the Early Middle Ages

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-252) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-804089-X

9786611162764

1-4356-2002-X

1-281-16276-0

OCLC:

271579463