The Case for Women's Ordination

Revised: Non-ordination of women: Not a dogma? - Catholic Culture

It pertains not to a truth drawn from Divine Revelation but to the absence of a truth that is necessary to the case. In fact, John Paul II's ...

Addressing One Part of the Female Ordination Question

Stephen C., it is equally valid to question any argument in favor of male-only ordination that relies on the framing of leadership positions as ...

Female Ordination: Why There is No Such Thing as Women Priests

Some of the most common arguments in favor of female ordination in the Catholic Church are: equality of the sexes and emotions. Women and men are different.

More than Theology? How Beliefs About Women's Ordination are ...

Charismatic evangelicals, by way of contrast, tend not to oppose women's ordination to any part of the Church's ordained ministry, seeing ...

Persuasive Strategies in a Chauvinistic Religious Discourse

Currently one of the most divisive issues in some Christian communities centers on women's ordination. This study critically analyzes a religious discourse ...

Statement on Women's Ordination to the Pastoral Ministry

This gradually led to a greater openness and even a sense of strong need for ordaining women to the gospel ministry in the TED. This was the case in some ...

The Women Who Want to Be Priests | The New Yorker

In 1994, Pope John Paul II issued a stern official letter that seemed to preclude even speaking about women's ordination. He lamented that, ...

The synodal process and women's ordination

The argument is often made that, although Jesus challenged the culture of his day by openly including women in his intimate circle of disciples, ...

Pathways to women's ordination - The Living Church

I was raised Pentecostal, and in most Pentecostal churches, continuing the Holiness legacy, women are and have been ordained. (Indeed, it is ...

A Case Study in Biblical Interpretation: Women in Ministry

There are those who believe these scripture passages settle the issue of women in ministry—or at least the ordination of women. However, as we ...

The ordination of women in the Catholic Church: arguments for ...

Abstract. Though the Catholic Church explicitly teaches that women cannot receive priestly ordination, opposition from within and outside the ...

2. The Bible and the Ministry of Women--Part 1

Proponents of women's ordination, however, offer different explanations for the lack of Biblical precedence for ordaining women. ... Consequently, they argue, the ...

Women's Ordination in the LCMS - Page 106

Was the article entitled "The Case for Female Pastors and Theologians" the one to which you were referring? Mike Gehlhausen. Guest ...

THE BIBLE'S SIMPLE CASE AGAINST WOMEN'S ORDINATION

It is the duty of the wife to yield her wishes and will to her husband. Both should be yielding, but the Word of God gives preference to the ...

My Journey to Affirming the Ordination of Women (Part X)

One important objection of complementarians to the evangelical egalitarian position is the observation that in the last century-and-a-half, ...

How I changed my mind on women's ordination - Andrew Unger

Namely: that while men and women were both made in the image of God and were of equal value, God intended for men, not women, to lead in the ...

The Authority of Scripture, Women's Ordination and the Lutheran ...

The protracted discussion regarding men-only ordination or the ordination of women-and-men is evidence that there is still lack of agreement within the LCA on ...

On Women's Ordination: A Response to Dr. John Jefferson Davis on ...

The idea is suggested that if Jesus were to start the church today, He would of course include women as apostles. But a little reflection on ...

The Ordination of Women, the Marks of the True Church, and ...

Women irregularly ordained (and there aren't any other kind) are yet ordained in those bodies that have approved this error. In our own body, we ...

Scripture, History, Tradition and Women's Ordination - William Witt

One of the key differences between the Protestant complementarian argument against women's ordination and the Catholic argument concerns the significance of ...