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Book SynopsisThe Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe is a minister in the United Reformed Church.
Janet Wootton is minister of Union Chapel, Islington, and founder-co-chair of the International Congregational Theological Commission.
Trade ReviewMention -Book News, February 2009
Title mention in Women in Ministry, October 2009
Review in Theologische Literaturzeitung 35, 2010
"This substantial volume of essays ... [and their] deliberations ... offer a 'state of the art overview of women in ministry at the beginning of the 21st century' ... All its chapters are both accessible and informative..." - John Drane, Theological Book Review, Vol 21 No 1, 2009 -- J. Drane * Theological Book Review *
The expressed hope of the editors is that the volume “will contribute to the wider debates of feminist theology and ecclesiology” (p. 17). This is a collection rich in theological, historical and social insight, offering a number of perspectives into the challenges facing the ordained ministry of women, and also the challenges presented by it, as Rachele Vernon’s Caribbean perspective suggests: “The admission of women to the threefold order of ministry does far more than change the face of Anglican priesthood. It profoundly alters the entire anatomy of ministry’ (p. 223). The volume more than lives up to the editors’ hope, and it deserves to be read and engaged with more widely than its expensive, hardback publication will perhaps allow. -- Reverend Dr. Hannah Cleugh, Diocese of Oxford, UK * Equinox Online *
This is a collection rich in theological, historical and social insight, offering a number of perspectives into the challenges facing the ordained ministry of women, and also the challenges presented by it... The volume more than lives up to the editors’ hope, and it deserves to be read and engaged with more widely. -- Revd Dr Hannah Cleugh, Diocese of Oxford * Theology and Sexuality *
Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Ian Jones, Kirsty Thorpe and Janet Wootton; Part I: Theological Perspectives; 1: Hermeneutical Questions: the Ordination of Women in the Light of Biblical and Patristic Typology Frances Young; 2: The Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church Catherine Gyarmathy-Amherd; 3: The Ordination of Women from an Orthodox Perspective Katerina Karkala-Zorba; 4: Should Theological Education Be Different for Clergywomen? Doing Women's Work; in a Mainline Protestant Seminary Ellen Blue; 5: Doing Leadership Differently? Women and Senior Leadership in the Church of England Rosie Ward; Part II: Historical Perspectives; 6: Winifred Kiek, Migration and the Prophetic Role of Congregational Women Ministers in Australia, 1927- 1977 Julia Pitman; 7: Women and Ministry within the British Unitarian Movement Ann Peart; 8: The Process in the Church of Sweden towards the Ordination of Women as Priests and the Consecration of Women as Bishops Christina Odenberg; 9: The Ordination of Women in Africa: a Historical Perspective Esther Mombo; 10: Women's Ordination in the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht: Discussion, Decision- Making and Reception Angela Berlis; Part III: Sociological Perspectives; 11: Forever pruning? The Path to Ordained Women's Full Participation in the Episcopal Church of the United States of America Adair Lummis; 12: The Feminisation and Professionalisation of Ordained Ministry within the M'ohi Protestant Church in French Polynesia Gwendoline Malogne-Fer; 13: Neither Male nor Female: Tradition, Ordination and Nigerian Female Leaders of New Generation Churches Bolaji Bateye; 14: One Ministry, Separate Spheres: The Experiences of Ordained Women in Senior Leadership in The Salvation Army in the UK Helen Cameron and Gillian Jackson; 15: Daughters of Jerusalem, Mothers of Salem: Caribbean Women in the Ministry of the Anglican Church Evie Vernon; Afterword Ian Jones.
