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Author: Gabrielle Thomas ,
Elena Narinskaya
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9781532695797
ISBN 10: 1532695799
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 10 July 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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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
"""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"
Author Information
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).
