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The Hidden History of Women's Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West Book

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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • 0195189701
  • 9780195189704
  • Gary Macy
  • 6 December 2007
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 280
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