Hidden History of Women's Ordination Female Clergy in the Medieval West

Name: Hidden History of Women's Ordination Female Clergy in the Medieval West
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ISBN: 9780199947065

ISBN-10: 0199947066

ISBN-13: 9780199947065

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gary Macy

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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…

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List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Abbreviations



The State of the Question



What Did Ordination Mean?



The Ministry of Ordained Women



Defining Women Out of Ordination



Conclusion


Historical and Theological Postscript



Prayers and Rites for the Ordination of a Deaconess



Ordination Rites for Abbesses from the Early Middle Ages


Notes


Bibliography


Index