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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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