Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice
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Contributing Authors: Fr. John Behr Dr Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou Dr. Dionysios Skliris Fr. Andrew Louth Dr Mary Cunningham Met Kallistos Ware Rev Dr Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Dr Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald Dr Carrie Frederick Frost Dr Paul Ladouceur Luis Josue Sales This book--a collaborative, international initiative, involving academic theologians and practitioners--invites the reader into a conversation about the ordination of women in the Orthodox Church. It explores questions relating to the significance of being human, Eve’s curse, sexed bodies, the place of Mary, the nature of priesthood, the role of the deacon, and the task of being a priest in the twenty-first century. The reflections move across three main areas of discussion: issues of theological anthropology, particular questions pertaining to the priesthood and the diaconate, and contemporary practices. In each area the implications for ordaining women in the Orthodox Church today are explored.
“Some traditions are old because they are truly valuable, while
some are valued only because they are old. The exclusion of women
from the priesthood is a practice for which the theological
arguments are notoriously weak—to the point of fatuity in many
cases—but Orthodoxy’s veneration of the past has usually made it
impossible to undertake a serious reconsideration of the issue. A
book like this, encompassing essays by such eminent scholars, has
long been desperately needed.”
—David Bentley Hart, author of That All Shall Be Saved
“This collection of essays represents by far the most thorough
engagement within Orthodox theology with the question of women’s
ordination. With contributions from some of the most recognizable
scholars of Orthodox Christianity, this volume advances the
discussion in such a way that the idea of women deacons—or even
priests and bishops—within the Orthodox church cannot be so easily
ignored or dismissed as being in contradiction with the
Tradition.”
—Aristotle Papanikolaou, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox
Theology and Culture, Fordham University, and co-founding Director
of Orthodox Christian Studies Center
- Title: Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice
- Authors: Gabrielle Thomas, Elena Narinskaya
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781532695803, 9781532695780, 9781532695797, 1532695802, 1532695780, 1532695799
- Resource ID: LLS:9781532695803
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T13:28:13Z
Gabrielle Thomas is Lecturer in Early Christianity and Anglican
Studies at Yale University. She is the author of The Image of
God in the Theology of Gregory of Nazianzus (2019).
Elena Narinskaya is Research Fellow in Abrahamic Religions at
Oxford University. She is the author of The Poetic Hymns of
Saint Ephrem the Syrian (2013).