Women and ordination in the Christian churches : international perspectives / / edited by Ian Jones, Kirsty Thorpe and Janet Wootton

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 262/.14
• Soggetto topico: Ordination of women - Christianity
• Altri autori: JonesIan, Dr. WoottonJanet ThorpeKirsty
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Hermeneutical questions: the ordination of women in the light of Biblical and patristic typology / Frances Young -- ; The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church / Catherine Gyarmathy-Amherd -- ; The ordination of women from an Orthodox perspective / Katerina Karkala-Zorba -- Should theological education be different for clergywomen? Doing 'women's work' in a mainline Protestant seminary / Ellen Blue -- Doing leadership differently? Women and senior leadership in the Church of England / Rosie Ward -- Winifred Kiek: migration and the prophetic role of Congregational women ministers in Australia, 1927-77 / Julia Pitman -- Women and ministry within the British Unitarian movement / Ann Peart -- ; The ordination and the consecration of women in the Church of Sweden / Christina Odenberg -- ; The ordination of women in Africa: an historical perspective / Esther Mombo -- Women's ordination in the old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht / Angela Berlis -- Forever pruning? The path to ordained women's full participation in the Episcopal Church of the USA / Adair T. Lummis -- ; The feminization and professionalization of ordained ministry within the Ma'ohi Protestant Church in French Polynesia / Gwendoline Malogne-Fer -- Neither male nor female: tradition, ordination and female leadership in the Nigerian new generation churches / Bolaji Olukemi Bateye -- One ministry, separate spheres: the experiences of ordained women in senior leadership in the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom / Helen Cameron, Gillian Jackson -- Daughters of Jerusalem, mothers of Salem: Caribbean women in the ministry of the Anglican Church / Rachele E. Vernon.
• Sommario/riassunto: The growth of women's ordained ministry is one of the most remarkable and significant developments in the recent history of Christianity. This collection of essays brings together leading contributors from both academic and church contexts to explore Christian experiences of ordaining women in theological, sociological, historical and anthropological perspective. Key questions include: How have national, denominational and ecclesial cultures shaped the different ways in which women's ordination is debated and/or enacted? What differences have women's ordained ministry, and debates on women's
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and ordination in the Christian churches
• ISBN: 0-567-23910-1; 1-282-86791-1; 9786612867910; 0-567-10676-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819860503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: T & T Clark theology.