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The Hidden History of Women's Ordination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

The Hidden History of Women's Ordination

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? How might the current debate change if our view of the history of women's ordination were to change? In The Hidden History of Women's Ordination, Gary Macy argues that for the first twelve hundred years of Christianity, women were in fact ordained into various roles in the church. He uncovers references to the ordination of women in papal, episcopal and theological documents of the time, and the rites for these ordinations have survived. The insistence among scholars that women were not ordained, Macy shows, is based on a later definition of ordination, one that would have been unknown in the early Middle Ages.

Control, Coercion, and Constraint
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

Control, Coercion, and Constraint

This volume is based on a lecture series that was held during the academic year 2021–2022 at the University of Bonn. Its contributors explore the role of religion in overcoming and creating structures of dependency from different disciplines and academic backgrounds. The question of the role of religion in justifying, perpetuating, modifying, and abolishing slavery and other forms of strong asymmetrical dependency is still a much-debated topic within historical and social sciences. The equality of all human beings before God, gods, or the divine is deeply rooted in religious thought. Conversion to one or another religion has, therefore, often led to critique, transformation, and even aboli...

The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-18
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  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Liturgical papyri are prime witnesses to the history of liturgy and the religious and theological currents in late antique Egypt. These items from the third to ninth century preserve hundreds of Greek and Coptic hymns, prayers, and acclamations, most otherwise unknown but some still recited by the Coptic Church. Agnes T. Mihalyko offers the first extensive introduction to the liturgical papyri, facilitating the reader's access to them with a detailed inventory of edited manuscripts and an extensive discussion of their date and provenance. She also examines liturgical papyri as the first preserved liturgical manuscripts, describing their material features, the ways they were used, the early history of the liturgical books, and their languages. She reveals how liturgical texts were written down and transmitted and locates these important manuscripts in the book culture of late antique Egypt.

Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery

Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, "natural" (Aristotle), or at best something morally "indifferent" (the Stoics), or, in the Christian milieu, a sad but inevitable consequence of the Fall, or even an expression of God's unquestionable will? Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery shows that there were also definitive condemnations of slavery and social injustice as iniquitous and even impious, and that these came especially from ascetics, both in Judaism and in Christianity, and occasionally also in Greco-Roman ("pagan") philosophy. Ilaria L. E. Ramelli argues that this depends on a link not only between as...

Sklaverei in Norm und Praxis
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 362

Sklaverei in Norm und Praxis

Als sich die ersten Christengemeinden in den Städten des Mittelmeerraums ausbreiteten, war die Sklaverei eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Sklaven waren in den Gemeinden vertreten und sollten aus christlicher Sicht als Brüder behandelt werden. Doch konnten die etablierten Hierarchien und Wertvorstellungen nicht einfach ausgeblendet werden. Viele Dokumente in vorkonstantinischer Zeit beleuchten Probleme und Konflikte im Umgang mit Sklaven in den Christengemeinden. Der vorliegende Band untersucht diese Probleme mit einer kritischen Analyse frühchristlicher präskriptiver Texte. Insbesondere werden die sogenannten Kirchenordnungen – pseudonym verfasste Texte, die für sich in Anspruch nehmen, ...

Studia Chrysostomica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Studia Chrysostomica

Hauptbeschreibung Die 13 Studien über Johannes Chrysostomus (ca. 349-407), dem bereits die Göttinger Habilitationsschrift Adolf Martin Ritters gewidmet war, sind seit 1969 entstanden und die meisten seit 1971 veröffentlicht worden; die erste und die letzte waren bislang unveröffentlicht. Sie beleuchten, nicht unkritisch, eine der Lichtgestalten der Kirchengeschichte, und das unter ganz unterschiedlichen, nicht zuletzt methodologischen, Aspekten. Dem Autor ist vor allem an dem Forschungsgespräch gelegen, das oft genug in Ansätzen stecken bleibt, daher nimmt dieses in den Studien eine ...

Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE

An investigation into slaveholding and slave experience in late antiquity, focusing on ideological, moral and cultural aspects of slavery.

Do this in Remembrance of Me
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 530

Do this in Remembrance of Me

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-10
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  • Publisher: SCM Press

Bryan Spinks is one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of liturgy and to have a comprehensive work by him on the Eucharist is a major catch for SCM. Like the author’s previous work on Baptism, this will become a standard work about the Eucharist and Eucharistic theology worldwide. The book, a study of the history and theology of the Eucharist, is the fifth volume in the SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy series and will help to establish the series as a place for landmark books of liturgical scholarship.

Sklaverei im Urteil der Jesuiten
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 354

Sklaverei im Urteil der Jesuiten

Der vorliegende Band untersucht am Beispiel der Jesuiten, die zwischen 1550 und 1650 an der römischen Jesuitenuniversität (Collegio Romano) lehrten, wie katholische Theologen Sklaverei thematisierten und deuteten. Dabei beschränkt sich die theologiegeschichtliche Untersuchung nicht auf die Rechtfertigung der Sklaverei in der Naturrechtsdebatte, sondern wird erstmals auf die verschiedenen (damals vorhandenen) theologischen Fächer ausgeweitet: Bibelexegese, Scholastische Theologie, Moraltheologie und Kasuistik. Mit einem eigenen Kapitel über Jesuitenmissionare werden zudem Erfahrungen mit Sklaverei beleuchtet. Jesuiten konnten selbst Sklaven oder Sklavenhalter sein. Auf diese Weise werden...

The Canon and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

The Canon and Beyond

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-10-28
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  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

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