Hidden history of women's ordination, the: female clergy in the medieval west
Auteur :
Macy, Gary
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195189704
Date de publication :
6 déc. 2007
Dimensions :
16,0 x 23,6 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
513 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Macy argues that for the first 1200 years of Christianity, women were in fact ordained into roles in the church. He uncovers references to the ordination of women in papal, episcopal and theological documents of the time. Beliefs that women were not ordained, he shows, is based on a later definition of ordination; unknown in the early Middle Ages.