Women and the Priesthood

Women and the Priesthood
Author: Thomas Hopko
Publisher: RSM Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881411461

The authors search for explanations and reasons why the Orthodox Church has never in its history ordained women to serve as bishops and priests. All agree that the Church had women deacons, and that careful consideration must be given to this office as it existed in the past and as it may once again in the Orthodox Church.

The Year They Gave Women the Priesthood and Other Stories

The Year They Gave Women the Priesthood and Other Stories
Author: Michael Fillerup
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022
Genre: Mormons
ISBN: 9781560854166

"In this new collection of short fiction, award-winning author Michael Fillerup explores the shuttered landscapes of Mormon culture where feel-good clichés falter and the faithful are scorched in the refiner's fire. The seventeen stories in Fillerup's new compilation run the gamut in length, style, and voice, but all share an unapologetic authenticity. Whether examining the hypocrisy of sexism, the crucible of forgiveness, or the heartbreak of parenthood, Fillerup leads readers through a labyrinth of emotions but never feeds them to the Minotaur. Light shines at the end of each tortuous tunnel and, to the thoughtful reader, genuine joy"--

When Women Were Priests

When Women Were Priests
Author: Karen J. Torjesen
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total 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.

Woman, Women, and the Priesthood in the Trinitarian Theology of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel

Woman, Women, and the Priesthood in the Trinitarian Theology of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel
Author: Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 056748078X

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 that all the Orthodox arguments against the ordination of women were, in fact, heretical at root. In this volume, Wilson analyzes all of Behr-Sigel's writings about women and the priesthood across the whole sweep of her career, demonstrating the development of her thought on women over the last thirty years of her life. She evaluates her relationship to feminism, Protestantism and movements within Orthodoxy, finally drawing conclusions about this much-contested matter for the ongoing debate in both the East and the West.