Eucharistic Presidency and Women's Ordination

Theology ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 88 (725) ◽  
pp. 350-357
Author(s):  
John Austin Baker
Keyword(s):  
Women's Ordination

Bonds of Discord: Alternative Episcopal Oversight Examined in the Light of the Nonjurring Consecrations

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (17) ◽  
pp. 398-409
Author(s):  
Roger Turner
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
The Church

In this paper I offer some warnings regarding the scheme for alternative episcopal oversight now embodied in the Act of Synod passed by the House of Bishops and published as Appendix B to Ordination of Women to the Priesthood: Pastoral Arrangements. These arrangements provide sacramental care as well as oversight for opponents of the ordination of women to the priesthood. Furthermore, the scheme is intended to serve two purposes: first, to safeguard the position of bishops and other clergy opposed to women's ordination; secondly, to ensure a continuity of such bishops and clergy. That the scheme is flawed becomes apparent when one examines it in the light of an arrangement devised at the end of the 17th century. The arrangement had been intended to secure the episcopal oversight of the body, both clerical and lay, which separated itself from the Church of England in 1690–91. The separation stemmed from its members feeling themselves unable to take the oaths of allegiance to William and Mary; hence the term ‘Nonjurors’.

scholarly journals Postfeminist, engaged and resistant: Evangelical male clergy attitudes towards gender and women’s ordination in the Church of England

2020 ◽  
pp. 205030322095286
Author(s):  
Alex Fry
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Gender Differentiation ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
Perceived Change ◽  
Conservative Evangelical ◽  
The Church

Despite the introduction of female bishops, women do not hold offices on equal terms with men in the Church of England, where conservative evangelical male clergy often reject the validity of women’s ordination. This article explores the gender values of such clergy, investigating how they are expressed and the factors that shape them. Data is drawn from semi-structured interviews and is interpreted with thematic narrative analysis. The themes were analyzed with theories on postfeminism, engaged orthodoxy and group schism. It is argued that participants’ gender values are best understood as postfeminist and that the wider evangelical tradition, as well as a perceived change in Anglican identity with the onset of women’s ordination, shape their postfeminism. Moreover, whilst evangelical gender values possess the potential to foster greater gender equality within the Church of England, gender differentiation limits this possibility, a limitation that could be addressed by increasing participants’ engagement beyond the Church.

Women's Ordination and the Vatican

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (18) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Gössmann
Keyword(s):  
Women's Ordination

Anglo-Catholics and the Ordination of Women: Some Unanswered Questions

Ecclesiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-33
Author(s):  
Tobias A. Karlowicz
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Structural Evaluation ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
The Church

Within the subset of Anglicanism known as Anglo-Catholicism, the theological debate over women’s ordination to the priesthood has focused on two categories of argument: the tradition of the church, and the symbolism of the priesthood. These, however, are subject to conflicting interpretations. Some seek to continue the received practice of an all-male priesthood, and explain it by reference to symbolic arguments, often Christological in nature. Others, however, argue for a development of egalitarian precedents in the New Testament to address the perceived exclusion of women from the church. This article analyses the debate between these positions both through close criticism of the main arguments, and through a broader structural evaluation of the debate as a whole. This analysis indicates unanswered questions of Christology, anthropology, and development, which are essential to the progress of the debate and the integrity of both positions.

The Church’s Dilemma

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Women's Equality ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
And Gender

This chapter presents a thematic analysis of official Church discourse on sex and gender—issues central to Catholicism and, beyond religion, publicly salient to contemporary questions of personal identity and social relationships. Focusing on abortion, same-sex relationships, and women’s ordination, it assesses the postsecular attunement of the Church’s respective arguments, and it notes the continuities between its reasoning on abortion and on social justice. The chapter argues that Pope Francis is symbolically disrupting Church discourse by recalibrating the Church’s public priorities, moving them away from sexual issues, offering a more compassionate framing of abortion, and using a more inclusive vocabulary, as well as meaningful silences on gay sexuality. His stance on women’s ordination, by contrast, especially the continuing ban on its discussion, defies postsecular expectations. The chapter probes the tensions in Francis’s construal of women’s equality and concludes by highlighting how clericalism may perpetuate Church officials’ biased understanding of women.

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