Woman, women, and the priesthood in the Trinitarian theology of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel / Sarah Hinlicky Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Sarah Hinlicky, author.

Series:

T & T Clark theology.

T & T Clark theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Behr-Sigel, Elisabeth.

Women clergy.

Women in the Orthodox Eastern Church.

Ordination of women--Orthodox Eastern Church.

Ordination of women.

Women in church work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (1907-2005), a convert to Orthodoxy in her early twenties and a central figure of Orthodox theology among Russian émigrés in Paris, first began to reflect on the question of women in the priesthood in 1976. Initially supporting the general consensus that priesthood would be impossible for the Orthodox, she came to retract this view, finding a basis for female ordination in women''s distinct spiritual charisms. Behr-Sigel later shifted the foundation of her case to personhood, inspired by the work of fellow Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky, and arrived at the conclusion

Contents:

The grandmother of Western Orthodoxy

Paul Evdokimov on "woman"

Agapia to Sheffield

The path to Rhodes

After Rhodes

The female diaconate

Feminist, Protestant, Orthodox?

Tradition, priesthood, gender and personhood.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index.

"Published works of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel"--Pages 167-182.

ISBN:

9780567217776

0567217779

9781472551467

147255146X

9780567480781

056748078X

OCLC:

879424816