|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies
|
Buy Now
The Hidden History of Women's Ordination - Female Clergy in the Medieval West (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,164
Discovery Miles 11 640
|
|
|
The Hidden History of Women's Ordination - Female Clergy in the Medieval West (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
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? How
might the current debate change if our view of the history of
women's ordination were to change?
In The Hidden History of Women's Ordination, Gary Macy offers
illuminating and surprising answers to these questions. Macy argues
that for the first twelve hundred years of Christianity, women were
in fact ordained into various roles in the church. He uncovers
references to the ordination of women in papal, episcopal and
theological documents of the time, and the rites for these
ordinations have survived. The insistence among scholars that women
were not ordained, Macy shows, is based on a later definition of
ordination, one that would have been unknown in the early Middle
Ages. In the early centuries of Christianity, ordination was
understood as the process and the ceremony by which one moved to
any new ministry in the community. In the early Middle Ages, women
served in at least four central ministries: episcopa (woman
bishop), presbytera (woman priest), deaconess and abbess. The
ordinations of women continued until the Gregorian reforms of the
eleventh and twelfth centuries radically altered the definition of
ordination. These reforms not only removed women from the ordained
ministry, but also attempted to eradicate any memory of women's
ordination in the past.
With profound implications for how women are viewed in Christian
history, and for current debates about the role of women in the
church, The Hidden History of Women's Ordinationoffers new answers
to an old question and overturns a long-held erroneous belief.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
