When Women Were Priests
Title | When Women Were Priests PDF eBook |
Author | Karen J. Torjesen |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1995-04-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0060686618 |
This landmark book reveals not only that women were priests, bishops, and prophets in early Christianity, but also how and why they were then suppressed.
Mary and Early Christian Women
Title | Mary and Early Christian Women PDF eBook |
Author | Ally Kateusz |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2019-02-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3030111113 |
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church depict women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy inside two of the most important churches in Christendom—Old Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz’s research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy.
Women and the Priesthood
Title | Women and the Priesthood PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Von Hildebrand |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Feminism |
ISBN | 9780940535725 |
When Women Become Priests
Title | When Women Become Priests PDF eBook |
Author | Kelley A. Raab |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2000-04-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780231506137 |
In an analysis that deftly unites feminist criticism, psychoanalysis, and Catholic theology, Kelley Raab explores the symbolic implications of women at the altar, providing rich insight into issues of gender, symbolism, and power.
When Women Become Priests
Title | When Women Become Priests PDF eBook |
Author | Kelley A. Raab |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780231113342 |
In an analysis that deftly unites feminist criticism, psychoanalysis, and Catholic theology, Kelley Raab explores the symbolic implications of women at the altar, providing rich insight into issues of gender, symbolism, and power.
Women Priests
Title | Women Priests PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard J. Swidler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
The Hidden History of Women's Ordination
Title | The Hidden History of Women's Ordination PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Macy |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2012-11-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199947066 |
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 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.