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When Women Were Priests
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

When Women Were Priests

Vital to the current debate about women and the church, this landmark book discloses clearly for the first time that women played prominent leadership roles in Jesus' own ministry and in the early church--as prophets, heads of churches, and teachers. Torjensen shows that the real reasons for women's subordination in Christianity have been social and secular and represent a betrayal of Jesus' teaching. Illustrations.

When Women Were Priests
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

When Women Were Priests

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995-04-15
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  • Publisher: HarperOne

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.

Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity

For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by an international group of scholars from several disciplines, investigates the diverse voices of Christian women who claimed the authority to preach and prophesy. The contributors examine the centuries of arguments, grounded in Pauline injunctions, against women's public speech and the different ways women from the early years of the church through the twentieth century have nonetheless exercised religious leadership in their communities. Some of them based their authority solely on divine inspiration; others were authorized by independent-minded communities; a few were even recognized by the church hierarchy. With its lively accounts of women preachers and prophets in the Christian tradition, this exceptionally well-documented collection will interest scholars and general readers alike.

Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State

Champagne and his coauthors reveal how the structure of a multinational state has the potential to create more equal and just national communities for Native peoples around the globe. In the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Guatemala, they show how indigenous people preserve their territory, rights to self-government, and culture. A valuable resource for Native American, Canadian, and Latin American studies; comparative indigenous governments; and international relations.

Jesus At 2000
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Jesus At 2000

Outcome of a symposium "Jesus at 2000," which convened Feb. 8-10, 1996 at Oregon State University; co-sponsored by Trinity Institute of New York City.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1049

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies

Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.

Women and Indigenous Religions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Women and Indigenous Religions

This book examines the critical and often undervalued contributions of women to the culture, well-being, and subsistence of their communities as active, powerful, and wise ritual specialists. From the Dalit midwives in India to the women of the Nahua region in the state of Morelos, Mexico, from the indigenous nations in Turtle Island in Canada to the shamans (male and female) of South Korea and Vietnam, there are still many vital indigenous cultures around the world in which women often hold positions of religious authority and leadership. Women and Indigenous Religions addresses specific issues in the study of religion, such as the multifaceted tensions between indigenous traditions and gender and the genealogy of positions of authority in religion or spiritual matters. A close examination reveals that native religions, with their women specialists, are still a source of inspiration for millions of men and women even in the "advanced" areas in the world. This fact challenges the opinion that indigenous cultures are becoming extinct.

The Oxford Handbook of Origen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 625

The Oxford Handbook of Origen

This interrogation of Origen's legacy for the 21st Century returns to old questions built upon each other over eighteen centuries of Origen scholarship-problems of translation and transmission, positioning Origen in the histories of philosophy, theology, and orthodoxy, and defining his philological and exegetical programmes. The essays probe the more reliable sources for Origen's thought by those who received his legacy and built on it. They focus on understanding how Origen's legacy was adopted, transformed and transmitted looking at key figures from the fourth century through the Reformation. A section on modern contributions to the understanding of Origen embraces the foundational contrib...

The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature

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Ordained Women in the Early Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Ordained Women in the Early Church

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-07-27
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Madigan and Osiek assemble relevant material from both Western and Eastern Christendom.--Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, author of Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Early Christianity "Catholic Historical Review"