Download or read book Episcopacy Authority and Gender written by Jan Wim Buisman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the base of religious leadership and how has it changed over the centuries? This volume presents a range of actors, both men and women, who, in a variety of historical contexts, claimed to be the living voices or intermediaries of God. The essays analyse the foundation of their authoritative claims and ask how and how far they succeeded in securing obedience from the Christians to whom they addressed their message. Religious authority is not understood as a monolithic entity but as something derived from many sources and claims. Whatever the national background, whether ordained or supposedly appointed through divine intervention, the histories of the people portrayed underline the long-term manifestations and multifaceted nature of Christian identity.
Download or read book Empowering Authority written by Gary Chamberlain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering Authority is a collection of dialogues about the central crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in our times: the role of authority in the identity of the church and its mission to the world. Against the background of the Vatican investigation of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of the Archdiocese of Western Washington, the conversations presented here attempt to re-examine the ways in which authority speaks "authoritatively."
Download or read book The Making of Biblical Womanhood written by Beth Allison Barr and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Bestseller Christianity Today 2022 Book Award Finalist (History & Biography) "A powerful work of skillful research and personal insight."--Publishers Weekly Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr. It arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments. This book moves the conversation about biblical womanhood beyond Greek grammar and into the realm of church history--ancient, medieval, and modern--to show that this belief is not divinely ordained but a product of human civilization that continues to creep into the church. Barr's historical insights provide context for contemporary teachings about women's roles in the church and help move the conversation forward. Interweaving her story as a Baptist pastor's wife, Barr sheds light on the #ChurchToo movement and abuse scandals in Southern Baptist circles and the broader evangelical world, helping readers understand why biblical womanhood is more about human power structures than the message of Christ.
Download or read book Episcopate written by C. Andrew Doyle and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top voices highlight important changes in the role of bishop. Compelling essays, written by bishops, other clergy, and academics from across the Episcopal Church, reflect the breadth of thinking on the history, current state, and future of the role of leadership within the denomination and the wider Anglican Communion. Topics include the transformation of the role over the last fifty years, a review of historic documents on the episcopacy, issues of race and gender, and the definition of ministry and leadership. This volume will be of interest to leaders across denominations as well as scholars.
Download or read book How Gender Transforms Yet Persists in Shaping Sacred Authority written by Catherine Crowder and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation's story begins in 1976, when the General Convention of the Episcopal Church U.S.A. (ECUSA) voted to approve the ordination of women to the priesthood, which had previously been closed to women. In the years since, both women and men have been ordained to the priesthood in ECUSA and empowered to hold the sacred authority to consecrate sacraments. This drastic shift in the practices of sacramental ministry is a meaningful change to the material and immaterial dimensions of religious practice, and gender as a lived reality for ECUSA adherents. In this study, I examine the reverberations of the changes associated with women's ordination, drawing on interviews with ECUSA clergy and laity to examine how these respondents are still wrestling with questions of meaning and practice. I offer a theoretical formulation of gender not as one social structure, but rather as a multiplicity of social structures bound together by their common origin in the social organization of reproduction. Each instance of gender as a social structure, including sacramental ministry, is open to change, following the process I show unfolding in ECUSA: changing practices, discarding old schemas, making meaning by importing meaning from other instance of gender as social structure, and building new schemas which oppose one another therefore constructing two new instances of social structure where previously there had been one. My primary theoretical contribution in this dissertation is to propose a new model, The Hydra Model, which illustrates this process of social change to gender, and which I argue can be applied to other instances of change to gender as social structure. Empirically, I contribute a case study of how such changes unfold, showing what happens to the meaning of sacraments, to the immaterial dimension of sacred authority, when the gender of sacramental ministers broadens to include women as well as men. Understanding how meanings change in structures as apparently eternal as gender and religion equips social analysts to contend with the reverberations of changes like the approval of women's ordination, and to anticipate how such changes to practice might be visible in meanings and deeply-held beliefs.
Download or read book Illness and Authority written by Donna Trembinski and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illness and Authority is the first monograph-length study to examine a well-known medieval saint from the perspective of disability studies.
Download or read book Fathers in God written by Colin Podmore and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical Anglican understanding of a bishop is expressed in the Canons of the Church of England with the phrase ‘father in God’ – wording that remains unchanged by the decision to ordain women as bishops. This volume sets out the understanding of priestly and episcopal ministry from biblical, historical and theological viewpoints of the Catholic wing of the Anglican church. It sets out in a non-polemic way the rationale of those who defend a traditional view of priesthood as male while being fully a part of the Church of England. It incorporates elements of the landmark book Consecrated Women? and brings the discussion fully up to date in light of the General Synod’s decision to ordain women to the episcopate in 2014. Leading Anglo-Catholic figures explore the topic from a range of perspectives, including Martin Warner, the Bishop of Chichester; on living in love and charity with your neighbour; Jonathan Baker, the Bishop of Fulham, on consecrated women; Emma Forward, a member of General Synod, on feminism in a post-feminist age; Geoffrey Rowell, formerly Bishop of Europe, on mission, scripture, tradition and church unity; and Aidan Nicholls OP, a Dominican priest and academic, offers a Roman Catholic perspective.
Download or read book The Exclusive Power of Episcopally Ordained Clergy to Administer the Wod and Sacraments and Consequently the Divine Authority of Episcopacy Discussed in a Letter to a Friend written by POWER. and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Divine Authority of Church government and Episcopacy Stated and Asserted Upon Principles Common to All Christians in a Sermon at the Consecration of P Brown Bishop of Corke and Rosse Etc written by Edward Synge and published by . This book was released on 1710 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Divine Authority of Church government and Episcopacy Stated and Asserted written by Edward Synge and published by . This book was released on 1710 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on the Episcopate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America written by Hugh Davey Evans and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Divine Authority of Church government and Episcopacy Stated and Asserted Upon Principles Common to All Christians In a Sermon at the Consecration of Peter Brown Bishop of Corke and Rosse Preached at the College Chapel on Sunday April 2 1710 written by Edward Synge and published by . This book was released on 1726 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diocesan Episcopacy examined a discourse delivered at the ordination of A Reid etc written by William Hendry STOWELL and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Whores Vertuous Women and Loveing Wives written by Debra A. Meyers and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families in early modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the restrictions that prevented the open expression of religious beliefs in the post-Reformation years. More can be gleaned by shifting our focus to the New World, where gender relations and family formations were largely unhampered by the unsettling political and religious climate of England. In Maryland, English Arminian Catholics, Particular Baptists, Presbyterians, Puritans, Quakers, and Roman Catholics lived and worked together for most of the 17th century. By closely examining thousands of wills and other personal documents, as well as early Maryland's material culture, this transatlantic study depicts women's place in society and the ways religious values and social arrangements shaped their lives. Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives takes a revisionist approach to the study of women and religion in colonial Maryland and adds considerably to our understanding of the social and cultural importance of religion in early America.
Download or read book Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis written by T. Tinkle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible.
Download or read book A Companion to Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages written by Greg Peters and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Companion to Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages, a select group of scholars explain the rise and function of priests and deacons in the Middle Ages. Though priests were sometimes viewed through the lens of function, the medieval priesthood was also defined ontologically–those marked by God who performed the sacraments and confected the Eucharist. While their role grew in importance, medieval priests continued to fulfil the role of preacher, confessor and provider of pastoral care. As the concept of ordination changed theologically the practices and status of bishops, priests and deacons continued to be refined, with many of these medieval discussions continuing to the present day.
Download or read book The Making of a Heretic written by Virginia Burrus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to explore heresy from the point of view of the followers of Priscillian and to reevaluate the reliability of the historical record. Her analysis takes into account the concepts of gender, authority, and public and private space that informed established religion's response to this early Christian movement. Priscillian, who began his career as a lay teacher with particular influence among women, faced charges of heresy along with accusations of sorcery and sexual immorality following his ordination to the episcopacy. He was executed along with several of his followers circa 386. His purportedly "gnostic" doctrines produced controversy and division within the churches of Spain, dissension that continued into the early decades of the fifth century. Burrus's thorough and wide-ranging study enlarges upon previous scholarship, particularly in bringing a feminist perspective to bear on the gendered constructions of religious orthodoxies, making a valuable contribution to the recent commentary that explores new ways of looking at early Christian controversies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
