TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macy,Gary
TI  - The hidden history of women's ordination: female clergy in the medieval West 
SN  - 0195189701
AV  - BV676 .M33 2008
U1  - 262/.1408209 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Ordination of women
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Ordination
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Kristendom
KW  - kao
KW  - Kvinnliga präster
KW  - historia
KW  - Europa
KW  - medeltiden
KW  - sao
KW  - Präster
KW  - Prästvigning
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Church
KW  - Leadership
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Kerkelijke ambten
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Frau
KW  - gnd
KW  - swd
KW  - Weihe
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-252) and index; The state of the question --; What did ordination mean? --; The ministry of ordained women --; Defining women out of ordination --; Conclusion
N2  - "In the early centuries of Christianity, ordination was the process and the ceremony by which one moved to any new ministry (ordo) in the community. By this definition, women were in fact ordained into several ministries. A radical change in the definition of ordination during the eleventh and twelfth centuries not only removed women from the ordained ministry, but also attempted to eradicate any memory of women's ordination in the past. The debate that accompanied this change has left its mark in the literature of the time. However, the triumph of a new definition of ordination as the bestowal of power, particularly the power to confect the Eucharist, so thoroughly dominated Western thought and practice by the thirteenth century that the earlier concept of ordination was almost completely erased. The ordination of women, either in the present or in the past, became unthinkable." "References to the ordination of women exist in papal, episcopal, and theological documents of the time, and the rites for these ordinations have survived. Yet, many scholars still hold that women, particularly in the Western church, were never "really" ordained. A survey of the literature reveals that most scholars use a definition of ordination that would have been unknown in the early middle ages. Thus, the modern determination that women were never ordained, Macy argues, is a premise based on false terms." "Not a work of advocacy, this important book applies indispensable historical background for the ongoing debate about women's ordination."--Jacket
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