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

• Superior document: T & T Clark theology
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Jones, Ian, Dr.; Wootton, Janet.; Thorpe, Kirsty.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: T & T Clark theology.
• Physical Description: xii, 242 p.
• Other title: Hermeneutical questions: the ordination of women in the light of Biblical and patristic typology /; ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church /; ordination of women from an Orthodox perspective /; Should theological education be different for clergywomen? Doing 'women's work' in a mainline Protestant seminary /; Doing leadership differently? Women and senior leadership in the Church of England /; Winifred Kiek: migration and the prophetic role of Congregational women ministers in Australia, 1927-77 /; Women and ministry within the British Unitarian movement /; ordination and the consecration of women in the Church of Sweden /; ordination of women in Africa: an historical perspective /; Women's ordination in the old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht /; Forever pruning? The path to ordained women's full participation in the Episcopal Church of the USA /; feminization and professionalization of ordained ministry within the Ma'ohi Protestant Church in French Polynesia /; Neither male nor female: tradition, ordination and female leadership in the Nigerian new generation churches /; One ministry, separate spheres: the experiences of ordained women in senior leadership in the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom /; Daughters of Jerusalem, mothers of Salem: Caribbean women in the ministry of the Anglican Church /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9780567031549 (hbk.); 0567031543 (hbk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ian Jones, Kirsty Thorpe and Janet Wootton.