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

by Gary Macy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195189701
• ISBN13: 9780195189704
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"