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Hayter, M. E. "The new Eve in Christ : the use and abuse of the Bible in the debate about women's ministry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354760.
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Williams, Liz. "Women's ordination in TheravaÌ?da Buddhism : ancient evidence and modern debates." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411542.
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Mesaros-Winckles, Christy Ellen. "Only God Knows the Opposition We Face: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Free Methodist Women’s Quest for Ordination." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1342832308.
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Coble, Ann Louise. "The lexical horizon of "one in Christ" the use of Galatians 3:28 in the progressive-historical debate over women's ordination /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Baker, Vanessa G. "Women's Pilgrimage as Repertoiric Performance: Creating Gender and Spiritual Identity through Ritual." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1268802573.
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Pless, Mia. "Developmental co-ordination disorder in pre-school children : Effects of motor skill intervention, parents' descriptions, and short-term follow-up of motor status." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2001. http://publications.uu.se/theses/91-554-4963-8/.
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SOUZA, VALÉRIA VIEIRA DE. "A (R)EXISTÊNCIA DAS VOCACIONADAS AO MINISTÉRIO PASTORAL BATISTA: DESCORTINANDO A RELAÇÃO ENTRE AS PASTORAS BATISTAS DE SÃO PAULO E A NÃO FILIAÇÃO NA ORDEM DOS PASTORES BATISTAS DO BRASIL EM SÃO PAULO (OPBB-SP)." Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, 2016. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1489.
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The Baptist context is predominantly marked by male leaders and for women only places and behaviors socially established, such as home care, maternity, submission, among other characteristics that emphasize the gender hierarchy. Even before the economic development and occupation that women are gaining in the public space, the church, mainly Baptist churches, remain founded on foundations that exalt male power at the expense of place that should be occupied by women, or where they decide to act. If they decide to operate in a predominantly male place, they will have to deal with the deconstruction of a thought socially permeated with male domination and the arduous construction of a thought aimed at gender equality. The object of this research is the female pastoral ministry in the Baptist Brazilian context. The text analyzes the discourse of Pastors Baptists of São Paulo and the speech of the Order of the leaders of Baptist Pastors of São Paulo (OPBB-SP) about the female pastoral ministry and not the membership of women in OPBB-SP. The importance of this work is to demonstrate the relationship of the micro power existing between shepherds and shepherdesses and concomitant inequalities within the context Baptist in relation to pastoral ministry. This statement is configured by means of the analysis of semi-structured interviews I conducted research with seven shepherds of São Paulo, as well as three leaders of OPPB-SP. It is a qualitative research, in which were analyzed official documents of the church, as convention agendas, protocol, institutional sites, periodicals and unofficial documents found on social networks, blogs, online newspapers, etc. I can claim that the Baptists pastors are mobilizing to fulfill his calling, using transcendent arguments that prevent any person to challenge or doubt the pastoral call these women, but: “The wind goes were its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes; so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.” (John 3.8)
O contexto batista é predominantemente marcado por lideranças masculinas, destinando às mulheres apenas lugares e comportamentos socialmente estabelecidos, como a casa, o cuidado, a maternidade, a submissão, entre outras características que enfatizam a hierarquia de gênero. Mesmo diante do desenvolvimento econômico e da ocupação que as mulheres estão conquistando no campo público, a igreja e principalmente as igrejas batistas, permanecem fundadas em alicerces que exaltam o poder masculino em detrimento do lugar que deve ser ocupado pelas mulheres, ou seja, onde elas decidirem atuar. Caso elas decidam atuar num campo predominantemente masculino, terão que lidar com a desconstrução de um pensamento socialmente permeado de dominação masculina e com a árdua construção de um pensamento que vise a igualdade de gênero. O objeto desta pesquisa é o ministério pastoral feminino no contexto batista brasileiro. O texto analisa o discurso das Pastoras Batistas do Estado de São Paulo e o discurso dos líderes da Ordem dos Pastores Batistas de São Paulo (OPBB-SP) a respeito do ministério pastoral feminino e a não filiação de mulheres na OPBB-SP. A importância deste trabalho é a de demostrar as relações de micro poder existentes entre pastores e pastoras e concomitantemente as desigualdades dentro do contexto batista com relação ao ministério pastoral feminino. Essa afirmação se consolida por meio das análises das entrevistas semiestruturadas que realizei na pesquisa de campo, com sete pastoras batistas do Estado de São Paulo, bem como com três líderes da OPPB-SP. Esta é uma pesquisa qualitativa, em que foram analisados documentos oficiais da igreja, como pautas de convenções, atas, sites institucionais, periódicos e documentos não oficiais encontrados em redes sociais, blogs, jornais online, entre outros. Posso afirmar que as pastoras batistas estão se mobilizando para cumprir sua vocação, usando argumentos transcendentes que impedem qualquer pessoa de desafiar ou duvidar de seu chamado pastoral, pois: “O vento sopra onde quer; ouve-se o ruído, mas não sabes de onde vem, nem para onde vai. Assim acontece com aquele(a) que nasceu do Espírito.” (João 3.8).
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Nauert, Kenneth Brian Jr. "After Vatican II: Renegotiating the Roles of Women, Sexual Ethics, and Homosexuality in the Roman Catholic Church." TopSCHOLAR®, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2444.
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Vatican II was one of the most seminal councils in Roman Catholic Church history, having far reaching effects on the universal institution.1 One of the most important outcomes of Vatican II was not the reforming of orthopraxy, but the dialogue that developed regarding three specific issues – the transforming of women’s roles in Church life, Catholic sexual ethics, and the Church’s relationship with LGBTQ+ individuals.2 The decades following Vatican II became a new era of religious dialogue among Catholic scholars and theologians, which established new discussions on women’s ordination, sexual ethics, and attitudes towards homosexuality in the contemporary world.
This thesis examines dialogue concerning women’s ordination, as well as the dialogue that developed from Pope John Paul II’s teachings in his Theology of the Body regarding sexual ethics and the agency of queer persons in the Church. It explores the dialogue among scholars and theologians on the changing role and opinion of women in ministerial positions, the shifting understanding of sexual morality, and the changing attitudes towards queer individuals that developed because of Vatican II’s emphasis on discussion.
Vatican II decisively changed the way the Church practices and performs its numerous responsibilities in our modern world. However, the result also included a deeper understanding of the individual needs, ideas, and beliefs of the laity. In 2014, the Vatican’s International Theological Commission referenced the importance of laity’s role as members of the universal Church:
Putting faith into practice in the concrete reality of the existential situations in which he or she is placed by family, professional and cultural relations enriches the personal experience of the believer. It enables him or her to see more precisely the value and the limits of a given doctrine, and to propose ways of refining its formulation. That is why those who teach in the name of the Church should give full attention to the experience of believers, especially lay people, who strive to put the Church’s teaching into practice in the areas of their own specific experience and competence.3
In doing so, greater concern for discussion of these issues developed, which is documented in this thesis.
1 To maintain efficiency within the overall thesis, from this point the term “Roman Catholic Church” will be shortened to “the Church.” This in no way is meant to mean the Catholic Church is the only church but is a way to provide a shortened term for a longer name. It also is not meant to delineate the entirety of the Body of Christ within the religious tradition of Christianity to the Roman Catholic Church.
2 Orthopraxy in this case refers to the correct performance and practice of certain rituals and ritespredominantly found within the Roman Catholic Latin Rite Mass.
3 International Theological Commission, “Sensus Fidei in the Life of the Church,” (Vatican City, 2014).
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Pardo, Marco H. "New Testament evidence for the role of women in the ministry of the church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Arnold, Thomas P. "Women ministering to women according to Titus 2:3-5." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Fewell, Jilaine Wolcott. "Transformative learning : insights into women seminarians' decisions to pursue ordination." Connect to resource, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1228171442.
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Thorne, Helen Mary. "Journey to priesthood : an in-depth study of the first women priests in the Church of England." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300568.
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French, Beverly J. (Beverly June). "The Impact of the Ordination of Women and Androgyny on Marital Adjustment." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500847/.
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Research on the ordination of women has focused on the effect in the church and on aspects of the personality of the women choosing the priesthood but not on effects on the families of ordained women. Using personal interviews, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale and the Bem Sex Role Inventory, spouses in 12 families which contain ordained women from Episcopalian, Methodist, Unity and The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints churches were analyzed to determine the effects of ordination on the families. Couples containing an ordained female were found to have slightly higher marital adjustment and significantly higher levels of androgyny than a standardized sample. Androgyny and marital adjustment were significantly correlated. The more androgenous, the greater the marital adjustment.
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Trapp, Daniel J. "The discussion of the ordination of women to the priesthood among Roman Catholics in the United States, 1977-1987 /." Roma : [s.n.], 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35701956m.
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Büchner, Elsje Petronella. ""Ek het 'n roeping" vrouepredikante se toelating in die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk : 'n kerkhistoriese en prakties-teologiese studie /." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08272008-153331/.
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Baro, Angela. "Let her speak for herself the practice of ordination and ministry as perceived by credentialed women clergy in the Assemblies of God in the District of Southern California /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Prince, Marylee L. "What in God's Name: The Ordination of Women and the Inclusive Language Liturgy Movement." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5148.
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In the years since World War II, increasing numbers of women have been ordained as clergy in mainstream Protestant denominations. During this period there has also been a movement to use inclusive language for God. This study examines the possibility that use of inclusive language for God in communal prayer by congregations in specific denominations (United Methodist Church, United Presbyterian Church USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Church of Christ, and the Episcopal Church USA) is related to experience with women clergy. Interviews, based on a questionnaire developed for this study, were held with the pastors of six Portland area congregations in each of these denominations. The questions were designed to elicit information about each congregation, the clergy associated with each congregation, and the use of inclusive language for God within each congregation. The results of the study are inconclusive. The United Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ began ordaining women many years before the other three denominations did. The two denominations also have produced liturgical materials which use inclusive language for God. However, there did not appear to be a relationship between an individual congregation's experience with women clergy and its use of inclusive language for God in communal prayer.
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Williams, Robert C. "A study of EFCA attitudes toward women in ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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McDowell, Maria Gwyn. "The Joy of Enacted Virtue: Toward the Ordination of Women to the Eastern Orthodox Priesthood." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3704.
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Thesis advisor: Francine CardmanThere is compelling reason to change the traditional practice of the Orthodox Church and begin taking active steps towards the inclusion of women in all the ministries of the church, including the sacramental priesthood. According to the French Orthodox theologian Élisabeth Behr-Sigel, initial responses to the issue contradict patristic views of the priesthood and undermine key aspects of Orthodox Christology, soteriology, and theology of icons. This dissertation extends the work of Behr-Sigel by carefully reading traditional texts, images, and liturgy in light of contemporary concerns. Five claims support women's participation in the priesthood. First, Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom present the priesthood as an eikon of the "new humanity" exemplified in Christ, in which we see embodied and enacted charisms, capabilities, functions, and virtues. Second, these charisms, capabilities, and virtues are evoked by multiple, contextual models and metaphors, none of which requires or prioritizes a male-bodied presider. Instead, as both a model and symbol, the presider serves as a dynamic eikon of the virtuous relationships that characterize the fuller humanity into which all are called via theosis. Third, iconic theology and practice consistently affirm the use of diverse media (included sexed persons) through which we see our "new humanity" embodied in unique persons who enact virtuous relationships. Denial of uniqueness and reduction to a particular quality or material is a form of blindness, a fixed rather than iconic "gaze." Fourth, the liturgy is an icon of the reign of God made visible through patterns of actions, that is ritual practices that teach participants how to relate in virtue to both God and neighbor. The liturgy is a primary locus for the `social construction' of virtuous persons-in-relation, and its practices either permit or prevent us from recognizing the unique irreducibility of our neighbor in both our ecclesial and human community. Fifth, the liturgical exclusion of women is a failure to love rooted in a gaze that fixates on sex rather than the unique and gifted human person before us. The church fails to enact its own eschatological hope when it reduces its members to a particular quality or capability. This failure is not, however, the last word. The church, through its theology and practice is that place where we become who we are. Therefore, it is called to recognize its participants as persons, to encourage their gifts, to receive their gifts, and as a community, offer those gifts for the life of the world
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Fraser, J. Cameron. ""Women in office" in relation to the role of deacons and their delegation to "major" assemblies testing another approach to a debate within the Christian Reformed Church /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Wakeman, Alan Terence. "The preparation of a church to accept a female pastor." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Swart-Russell, Phoebe. "The ordination of women to the priesthood : a critical examination of the debate within the Anglican communion, 1961-1986." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17180.
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Bibliography: pages 407-418.This thesis sets out to make a comprehensive study of the debate on the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion. This required, first and foremost, an historical examination of the development of the debate. Chapters 1-3 trace the movement of thought and attitude within the churches which make up the Communion, focusing particularly on the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, the Church of England, and the Episcopal Church of North America. A gradual shift in attitudes is revealed, away from grossly sexist understandings of women's roles in the church, and towards an acceptance that women have both the gifts and the calling for priesthood and indeed, for any role in the church. The next step after tracing the movement of attitudes in the past, was to examine the attitudes of the present. Chapter 4 contains the results of empirical research, undertaken in South Africa, on present-day attitudes and arguments in the debate. These, as might be expected, reveal a wide spectrum of opinion, from ultra-conservative stereotypes of women's role to an open acceptance of women occupying any role for which they have the gifts and abilities. Each response, of course, produced theological and scriptural evidence in its own support. Chapters 5 and 6, therefore, provide a biblical and theological evaluation of the evidence and arguments upon which these responses were based, both for and against the ordination of women to the priesthood. The biblical and theological evaluation revealed the crux of the thesis - namely, that the debate on the ordination of women to the priesthood is an integral part of the phenomenon of ecclesial and social sexism. The arguments of the opponents of women's ordination are invariably based on sexist modes of thought. At the same time, however, the arguments of the proponents of women's ordination are, to a large extent, influenced and. shaped by those same sexist modes of thought which they are attempting to address. For this reason the arguments in favour of women's ordination are unable to create a new theology in which the full humanity of Christian women as created in the image of God is a non-negotiable assumption; a theology in which therefore the priesthood, and women's participation in it takes on a new form closer to the revelation of the servant priesthood of Christ. Chapter 7 thus moves beyond the debate on women's ordination to an analysis of the structures and principles of sexism, and especially the manifestations of the sexism in past and present church history. It is only by the complete abolition of sexism in the churches that the true priesthood of both women and men can be achieved. In Chapter 8 the first tentative steps towards this goal are explored. It is obvious that the abolition of sexism in the churches must primarily take place through the self-liberation of Christian women and men from sexist patterns of thought and behaviour. Groups such as the Movement for the Ordination of Women in Britain can contribute much towards this end by their outreach to their members who in turn can communicate with fellow parishioners. In this way various groups may be started in the parishes, and house churches may be influenced in their teaching and thinking.
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Hungerford, Catherine Lucy. "Rhetoric in testimonial stories associated with the debate over the ordination of women in the Sydney Anglican Diocese : form and function /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18054.pdf.
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Waller, Joanna Christian. "A critical survey of the history and development of the present ban on the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2015. http://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/702/.
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The Roman Catholic Church maintains that women cannot be ordained to the ministerial priesthood because of its unbroken tradition that only men can be priests, based on the example of Jesus, who chose only men to be ‘Apostles’. Vatican documents published during the late twentieth century use the writings of several mediaeval theologians and canonists to support this ruling. The topic is of present-day importance for understanding the origins of the exclusion of women from the priesthood given the current shortage of priests in the Catholic Church. This thesis looks first at the present ruling in the Vatican documents, and then considers the mediaeval writings, canon law and theology, from scholars such as Gratian, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure and Duns Scotus, looking especially at their Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Subsequent chapters analyse in more detail the arguments from scripture and biology, drawing together strands of thought in the Middle Ages on these subjects, including judgements about women’s intellectual and emotional capacity, and the contemporary anthropological and Christological understanding of the Incarnation. Language and translation are also significant but often neglected factors in the discussion, which the thesis studies by highlighting the recovery of Greek writings in medicine and philosophy, along with choice of terminology and use of metaphor, in the mediaeval period and in modern Church documents. By this approach, a critical survey is made of the most salient aspects of the debate. This thesis seeks to dissect systematically the origins of the prohibition, based on attitudes towards women which, while not always intentionally misogynistic, were nonetheless rooted in a world view that, the thesis argues, is no longer relevant today.
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Barbeite, Bertha C. "New testament evidence for ordaining women in the catholic church: evaluating claims in inter insigniores and ordinatio sacerdotalis." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1395.
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This Master's Thesis will re-evaluate the conclusions of the Vatican on the issue of women's ordination, as presented in the documents Inter Insigniores and Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, by researching the discoveries of scriptural scholarship on the significance of women in the New Testament ministries. The essential question is, are the two previously mentioned documents authoritative when they exclude women from priesthood on the basis of Scripture? Special emphasis is on the unprejudiced rereading of the status of women in the ministry of Jesus and the early church communities. The research proved that there is no significant evidence in the New Testament to reserve ordained ministries in the Church to men only.
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Crabtree, Daniel. "Let them preach a class on women in ministry /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p028-0281.
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Fernandes, Ligiane Taiza Muller. "Mulheres e ordenação (na IECLB) : novos modelos e outras possibilidades na vivência cotidiana do ministério ordenado." Faculdades EST, 2010. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=273.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorAs mulheres e a ordenação na Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana no Brasil (IECLB) são novos modelos e também outras possibilidades na vivência cotidiana do ministério ordenado. A presença das mulheres na Igreja é antiga. No entanto, esse novo e importante passo, a ordenação na IECLB, é recente. Remexer o baú nos mostrou que a presença de um m odelo normativo masculino fez com que as mulheres encarassem o desafio de ousar experimentar novos modelos, vivenciar outras possibilidades, trilhar novos caminhos, até encontrar um jeito próprio de vivenciar o ministério. A hermenêutica do discurso e a hermenêutica feminista são experimentadas quanto ousamos interpretar algumas falas das obreiras ordenadas. E ainda um olhar curioso quer revelar um pouco das relíquias existentes no cotidiano, no tocante ao discurso e também as práticas, bem como apontar para os desafios que surgem para pensa rmos na continuidade. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo perceber e tornar visível alguns dos desafios que as mulheres encontram na vivencia diária do ministério ordenado, mas quer também apon tar para as possibilidades, indicando para os sinais positivos, as experiências cotidianas que possam ser sinal de crescimento e de realização, tanto para as mulheres quanto para as comunidades, e para as Igrejas em geral, que a presença das mulheres traz neste ministério.
Women and the ordination in the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (ECLCB) are new models and also other possibilities in daily existence of the ordination ministry. Womens presence in the Church is old. However, this new and important step, womens ordination in ECLCB, is recent. Shuffling the trunk showed us that the presence of a masculine normative model made women face the challenge of daring and trying new models, living other possibilities, treading new roads, until they could find their own way of living the ministry. The discourse hermeneutic and the feminist hermeneutic are experienced when we dare to interpret some discourses of ordained women. And still a curious glance wants to reveal a little of the existent relics on daily life, like speeches and also practices, as well as to point challenges which will appear for us in order to think on continuity. This research has as objective to notice and to make visible some of the challenges women find in daily life of ordination ministry, but it also wants to point possibilities, showing positive signs, daily experiences which can be growth and accomplishment signs for women as well as for communities and for Churches in general, signs which womens presence brings in that ministry.
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Freeman, Ricky. "Rethinking gender and authority in Christ increasing knowledge and changing attitudes about women in ministry at Saint John Church-Baptist, Chicago, Illinois /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Silva, Roberta Alexandrina da. "A ambiguidade da ordenação feminina : mulher e subjetividade na comunidades paulinas durante os primeiro seculo." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280154.
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Orientadores: Andre Leonardo Chevitarese, Pedro Paulo Abreu FunariTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Este trabalho discute como os discursos são apropriados e selecionados, com o intuito de legitimar posturas e comportamentos, como no caso, do problema da Ordenação feminina no âmbito católico nos séculos XX e XXI, depois do Concílio do Vaticano II (1962-1965), que se tornou ponto de partida para debates entre teólogas feministas e o grupo 'conservador' da Igreja Católica. Com isso, a questão da Ordenação perpassa, por ambos os grupos, por uma apropriação do passado cristão, as suas origens, em que o corpus paulinum se tornou um ponto de partida para debates e discussões na atualidade. Foi a partir dessas origens que o trabalho, no segundo momento, se centrou ao abordar o contexto desse mundo paulino, século I e.c., onde valores como honra e vergonha foram trabalhados nas comunidades paulinas e que refletem no corpus paulinum. O problema da Ordenação é o ponto inicial da tese, pois esta pesquisa se centra como Paulo foi apropriado e utilizado, tanto por grupos na contemporaneidade quanto por escritos pós-paulinos, onde, a figura de Paulo foi utilizada para legitimar e endossar condutas e posturas, e um processo de institucionalização da Igreja. Em suma, este trabalho sugere algumas concepções distintas para conceitos como feminino e masculino, analisados numa perspectiva de gênero. Emerge, dessa análise, outro olhar sobre o papel sexo-social nas comunidades paulinas do I século e.c., o que permite um confronto dessa leitura com discursos acadêmicos sobre o assunto
Abstract: This work discusses like the discourses are appropriate and selected in order to legitimize and behaviors, such as the problem of female Ordination in Catholic scope in the twentieth century and after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), that became the starting point for debates among feminist theologians and the 'conservative' of the Catholic Church. Thus, the question of ordination passes, by both groups, for a Christian appropriation of the past, its origins in the corpus paulinum became a starting point for debate and arguments today. It was from these origins that the work the second moment, focused to address the context of this world Pauline century, where values like honor and shame were worked in the Pauline communities and reflect the corpus paulinum. The issue of ordination is the initial point of the thesis, because this research focuses as Paul was appropriated and used by both groups in contemporary writings as a post-Pauline, where the figure of Paul was used to legitimize and endorse behaviors and attitudes, and a process of institutionalization of the Church. In short, this work suggests some ideas for different concepts such as male and female, analyzed from a gender perspective. It emerges, of that analysis, another look at the social-sex role in Pauline communities of first century CE, which allows a comparison of this reading with academic discourses on the subject
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Barna, Ján. "Ordination of women in Seventh-day Adventist theology : a biblical and theological analysis and synthesis of the debate with special attention to hermeneutical matters." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/87f2f001-b16f-4306-a09b-08ff0052576c.
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The present thesis is the first of its kind in attempting to produce a comprehensive systematic analysis and synthesis of the biblical, theological and hermeneutical aspects of the ongoing debate about the role of women in Adventist theology. While studies have investigated already the sociological aspects of the debate no study has yet systematised and investigated in depth the debate with special attention to hermeneutical matters. The thesis is divided into four chapters. After an Introduction which defines the basic elements of the study and provides a literature review, Chapter One provides a historical introduction into the topic of women's ordination in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Particularly historical and ecclesial developments are reviewed from the perspective of the early Adventist situation and the modem context. Chapter Two and Chapter Three are two parallel chapters which analyse and synthesise opponents (Chapter Two) respectively proponents' (Chapter Three) biblical, theological and hermeneutical positions. The analysis in both chapters also specifically investigates the hermeneutical rationales of each side by examining their theories of biblical inspiration, interpretative method and functional aspects of their hermeneutics. The last chapter of the dissertation takes the hermeneutical conclusions from the previous two chapters and assesses them on a meta-hermeneutical level from the perspective of modern hermeneutical developments. The thesis ends with a summary and conclusion which summarises all the main findings of the study. Overall, the thesis not only systematises the ongoing ordination of women dispute but in addition provides an insight into the operation of the Adventist hermeneutical mindset by examining and assessing the theoretical bases on which Adventist hermeneutical thinking operates. This research therefore will be primarily valuable in the field of Adventist studies but non-Adventist scholarship intending to know more about Adventist theology and hermeneutics may also find the thesis helpful.
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Pontes, Miqueias Machado. "Mulheres e o exercício da liderança nas Assembleias de Deus no Brasil: uma questão ética." Faculdades EST, 2015. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=593.
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O papel das mulheres e o exercício da liderança tem sido uma questão de discussão ética nas Assembleias de Deus no Brasil diante dos desafios impostos pela modernidade. O conceito de alteridade e as questões levantadas pelo feminismo e incorporadas pelas teologias feministas podem auxiliar na busca de respostas. Algumas mulheres têm se destacado na história desta denominação religiosa, mostrando ser possível a participação das mulheres na função pastoral eclesiástica. As histórias de Frida Vingren e Ruth Doris Lemos comprovam que desde a fundação das Assembleias de Deus no Brasil até a consolidação da formação de sua liderança, as mulheres têm participado ativamente e até mesmo reivindicado seu reconhecimento por meio da ordenação ministerial. Nessa discussão, estão envolvidas questões de gênero que mostram novas perspectivas possíveis para o futuro da Igreja no Brasil. Por isso, considerando o papel ativo e organicamente pulverizado das mulheres, o presente trabalho final de mestrado profissional busca considerar o seu papel na história das Assembleias de Deus ao longo de sua institucionalização como ramo do protestantismo pentecostal, presente no Brasil, bem como sua luta por reconhecimento.The role of women and exercising leadership has been an issue of ethical discussion in the Assemblies of God in Brazil faced with the challenges imposed by modernity. The concept of otherness and the issues raised by feminism and incorporated in feminist theologies can help in the quest for answers. Some women have stood out in the history of this religious denomination showing that the participation of women in the ecclesiastical pastoral function is possible. The stories of Frida Vingren and Ruth Doris Lemas prove that since the foundation of the Assemblies of God in Brazil up to the consolidation of the formation of their leadership, the women have actively participated and even demanded their recognition through the ministerial ordination. In this discussion gender issues are involved which show possible new perspectives for the future of the church in Brazil. That is why, considering the active and organically distributed role of the women, this conclusion paper for the Professional Masters program considers their role in the history of the Assemblies of God throughout its institutionalization as a branch of the Pentecostal Protestantism present in Brazil as well as their struggle for recognition.
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Nützel, Gerda. "Die Kontextualität der Theologinnenarbeit - dargestellt am Beispiel der Entwicklung in den lutherischen Kirchen Bayerns, Mecklenburgs und Brasiliens." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Theologische Fakultät, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/14434.
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Für die Untersuchung der Kontextualität der Theologinnenarbeit wurden Theologinnen aus drei Kirchen mit gemeinsamer lutherischer Konfessionalität ausgewählt, die im Untersuchungszeitraum in differenten sozioökonomischen Kontexten existierten: die Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche in Bayern, die Evangelisch--Lutherische Landeskirche Mecklenburgs sowie die Evangelische Kirche lutherischen Bekenntnisses in Brasilien (IECLB). Ziel war die Reflexion der Kontextuaität der theologischen Urteilsbildung und des kirchlichen Handelns. Anstöße aus der feministischen Theoriebildung und der emprischen Sozialforschung wurden einbezogen, z.B für die Interviews mitr je 20 Theologinnen aus jeder der drei Kirchen, die mit Hilfe eines Fragebogens nach ihrer Arbeitssituation, der Relevanz des Geschlechterverhältnisses, konfessioneller und ökumenischer Aspekte sowie ihrer Berufskonzeption gefragt wurden. Die Darstellung der Auseinandersetzung mit der Theologinnenarbeit in der theologischen Literatur zeigte, daß erste Überlegungen in Deutschland und in der Ökumene seit der ahrhundertwende angestellt wurden. Nach einer Phase einer geschlechtsspezifschen Konzeption eines Amtes sui generis erfolgte das Plädoyer für die kirchenrechtliche Gleichstellung und schließlich in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten Überlegungen hinsichtlich des Innovationspotentials der Theologinnenarbeit. Die drei Hauptteile zur Entwicklung der Theologinnenarbeit jeweils in einem der drei Kontexte beginnen mit einer Einführung in den jeweiligen sozioökonmischen Kontext von Frauen sowie in die jeweilige kirchengeschichtliche Entwicklung. Einzelne Phasen der Diskussion und Gestaltung der Theologinnenarbeit werden mit Hilfe von Archivmaterialien sowie weiteren schriftlichen und mündlichen Quellen dargestellt. In Bayern und Meckleburg fingen jeweils einzelne Theologinnen vor 1945 in individuell organisierten Arbeitsfeldern an. Nach 1945 wurden geschlechtsspezifische Berufskonzepte entwickelt, die sich jedoch als diskriminierend und einschränkend erwiesen, so daß es schließlich zur weitgehenden rechtlichen Gleichstellung kam. Insbesondere jedoch durch den gesellschaftlichen Aufbruch der Frauen kam es in den 80er Jahren zu einer erneuten Reflexion geschlechtsspezifischer Chancen im Pfarrberuf. Im brasilianischen Kontext suchten die lutherischen Theologinnen nach ihrem Einstieg ins Gemeindepfarramt nach alternativen Formen des pastoralen Amtes und reflektierten ebenfalls ab Ende der achtziger Jahre ihre Arbeit unter feministisch-befreiungstheologischen Aspekten. Das Resümee zeigt hinischtlich der sozioökomonischen Kontextualität der Theologinnenarbeit zunächst die Wechselwirkungen zwischen dem jeweiligen sozioökonomischen Kontext und der Entwicklung der Theologinnenarbeit auf und reflektiert dann die sich daraus ergebenden sozialethischen, biblisch-hermeneutischen und anthropologischen Fragen sowie Konsequenzen für eine inklusive Pastoralethik. Die Reflexion der kirchlich-instiutionellen Kontextualität der Theologinnenarbeit vergleicht die realen Einwirkungen der kirchlich-institutionellen Aspekte und reflekiert die sich daraus ergebenden ekklesiologischen Fragestellungen z.B hinsichtlich der Konzilität kirchlicher Entscheidungsfindung. Die Berücksichtigung der realen Einwirkungen der ökumenischen und konfessionellen Zusammenschlüsse auf die Entwicklung der Theologinnenarbeit in den drei genannten lutherischen Kirchen sowie die Darstellung der Positionen der orthodoxen Kirchen und des römisch-katholischen Lehramtes zur Frauenordination bzw. Priesterinnenweihe zeigt die weitergehenden Differenzen hinsichtlich der Konzeptionen kirchlicher Einheit, Anthropologie, Hermeneutik und Ekklesiologie auf. Am Ende werden ökumenisch-theologischePerspektiven für eine weitere gemeinsame Urteilsbildung hinsichtlich der Theologinnenarbeit entwickelt.The research of the history of female theologians shows the development of women pastors in three lutheran churches living in three different socioeconomic contects of RFA, GDR and Brazil. Based on literal souce mateial and interviews with 20 women pastors of every church surge the historical steps of female participation in the ordainend ministry. At the beginning some women studied theology, looked for individal possibilities to work in the church. The next step has been a special limited form of women ministry until their ful participation of men and women in the ordained ministry happened. In the last years the chances oft the gender is discussed in a feminist view. The summary reflects the importance oft the socioeconomic contect, of the different forms of ecclesiastical instiutions and of the influence of the different convictions in the orthodox churches,. in the roman catholic teaching und in the protestant theology. The result is that the development of female participation in lutheran churches challenges all christians and all churches to inquire their biblical hermeneutic, anthropology and ecclesiology. The history of the female theologians in the lutheran churches provokes a vision of christian unity which includes the ful participation of men and women in the ordained ministry.
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Lupyani, Bodson Chailusa. "The (sub) ordination of women in the evangelical church in Zambia : a critical analysis of the ecclesiological and hermeneutical principles underlying the refusal of women's ordination." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/627.
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The purpose of the study is to investigate and analyse the theological, hermeneutical and, to a lesser extent, the cultural reasoning behind the prevention of women being ordained in the Evangelical Church in Zambia. The study also seeks to propose a theology that is more inclusive than the one which the church currently propagates. While the government is trying its best to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, the churches, in particular the Evangelical Church in Zambia (ECZ), are still subordinating women, using some biblical texts to defend their actions. Women in the ECZ are denied ordained ministry or prevented from living out their vocation to its fullest because of the Church‟s beliefs concerning women‟s humanity and their beliefs regarding the interpretation of Scripture. The study analyses the arguments for and against the ordination of women from the stance of Scripture and from the point of view church tradition. The study further looks at the ecclesiological and hermeneutical principles of the ECZ on which the ordained ministry to women is denied. The study establishes that the refusal of women‟s ordination is based on the creation story in Genesis and on Pauline teachings which indicate that women may not have authority over men and which demand their submission in life and in the church. The study also established that the arguments against the ordination of women from the church tradition are based on the secular pagan prejudice which considers women as inferior by nature, in a state of punishment and ritually unclean. The ECZ continues to follow this tradition. The conclusion emphasised the need for the ECZ to research the Scriptures and tradition for imagery of human wholeness.Thesis (M.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2009.
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Cairns, Helen Dorothy. "1 Timothy 2:8-3:1 (a), women's ordination in the light of the Christian self-definition of women in Ephesus." Diss., 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16257.
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Throughout church history, traditional interpretations of I Timothy 2:8-3:1 (a) have excluded women from ordained ministry in the church universal. The aim of this dissertation was to propose an alternative hermeneutical framework to effect fresh understanding of this text. A social-scientific approach utilised . models from sociology and communication theory. The socio-religious climate of Asia Minor particularly Ephesus between 59 and 64 C E is described. An assessment is made of the status of women in Asia Minor as well as in Hellenism, Romanism and Judaism. A textual analysis provided pointers to the aspects under research. Research findings strongly suggest that neither the text or the world beyond can be used to exclude women from full participation at all levels in the church.Biblical and Ancient Studies
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Mudimeli, Lufuluvhi Maria. "The impact of religious and cultural discourses on the leadership development of women in the ministry : a vhusadzi (womanhood) perspective." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5726.
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Culture and religion have both healthy and unhealthy effect on the leadership development of women in Africa. In this regard, the impact of especially African Pentecostal Christian discourses, as well as Vhavenda cultural discourses, on the lives of women leaders are brought to the surface through literary reviews, questionnaires and interviews. Accordingly, the data obtained by means of these methods are analysed using existing theological and cultural hermeneutics methods. Furthermore, they are deconstructed in terms of a vhusadzi (womanhood) perspective of empowerment regarding women in the ministry, which is applicable in an African-South African context. The present role of women in Pentecostal churches in the Venda context is studied historically and critically with reference to a future of empowerment. It is found that the leadership role of women in the ministry in Pentecostal churches in Venda is faced by certain challenges, which include rereading the Bible from the perspective of women in partnership with men, validating women’s ordination in dialogue with patriarchal interpretations of presumed biblical prohibitions on women’s ordination, rescoping cultural influences on church leadership roles, which are supported by Venda proverbs and rituals and reframing perceptions of women in the ministry amongst church leaders and the laity. The unique contribution of this thesis is, firstly, its focus on Pentecostal women in Venda. Secondly, a vhusadzi perspective is formulated that has never been done before in the literature. This perspective encompasses the experiences and expectations of Vhavenda women living in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. Thirdly, a link is drawn between culture, religion and ministerial leadership with a gender focus that produces new knowledge of the relationship between religion and culture as it manifests itself in a Venda context. The vhusadzi approach is informed by the bosadi approach of the Old Testament scholar, Madipoane Masenya, and feeds on her insights into women’s access to the interpretation of biblical texts. The vhusadzi approach takes these insights further by applying them to Vhavenda women’s access to leadership roles in the church. It opens up the future for further research, inviting African women scholars to contextualise issues related to women’s ordination.Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics
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"女牧師在按立過程中的「抗衡表現」: 以香港四個基督敎宗派為例." 2001. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5895929.
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黃慧賢."2001年8月"
論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2001.
參考文獻 (leaves 150-161)
附中英文摘要.
"2001 nian 8 yue"
Huang Huixian.
Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2001.
Can kao wen xian (leaves 150-161)
Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.
引言篇 --- p.1
Chapter 1. --- 女性按立議題的本質 --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- 神聖與世俗的取捨
Chapter 1.2 --- 保留傳統與革新制度的選擇
Chapter 2. --- 婦女對按立議題的回應 --- p.7
Chapter 2.1 --- 在婦女運動影響下，女性對按立女牧師的立場和反省
Chapter 2.2 --- 女性參與封職的經驗
Chapter 3. --- 理論架構一福柯的抗衡槪念 --- p.14
Chapter 4. --- 硏究方法 --- p.16
Chapter 4.1 --- 歷史文獻
Chapter 4.2 --- 定質社會硏究
Chapter 5.2.1 --- 深入訪問
Chapter 5.2.2 --- 口述歷史
Chapter 5.2.3 --- 跨宗派硏究
Chapter 5. --- 論文大綱 --- p.21
Chapter 第一章： --- 香港基督教會女性按立的歷史發展與槪況 --- p.22
Chapter 1. --- 香港首名女牧師 --- p.22
Chapter 2. --- 一件光榮的歷史一香港聖公會突破聖公宗的按立制度 --- p.27
Chapter 3. --- 綜觀香港教會開放女性按牧的槪況 --- p.29
Chapter 3.1 --- 各宗派開放女性按牧的槪況
Chapter 3.2 --- 緩慢發展四十載
Chapter 3.3 --- 八九以後女性封牧迅速增加
Chapter 4. --- 總結 --- p.37
Chapter 第二章： --- 宗派開放按立女牧師的話分析 --- p.39
Chapter 1. --- 話語分析的定義 --- p.39
Chapter 2. --- 開放女牧職的首要機制：嚴謹和深入研究討論 --- p.42
Chapter 3. --- 按立的理念：徘徊兩性爭議和神學/聖經權威之間 --- p.47
Chapter 3.1 --- 話語一：強調兩性平等
Chapter 3.2 --- 話語二 ：抗拒兩性平等
Chapter 3.3 --- 話語三：視乎說話對象而定
Chapter 4. --- 討論的內容：重新界定女牧職的準則？ --- p.54
Chapter 5. --- 問題焦點：加強對婦女事奉的認同或再確定婦女的邊緣位置？ --- p.56
Chapter 6. --- 總結 --- p.59
Chapter 第三章： --- 從兩個信義宗宗派的個案，分析兩個最佳女候選人的抗衡 故事 --- p.60
Chapter 1. --- 略述國外宗派聯繫對兩個信義宗宗派開放按立的影響 --- p.60
Chapter 2. --- 甲宗派開放按立女牧師的前因後果 --- p.64
Chapter 3. --- 乙宗派開放按立女牧師的來龍去脈 --- p.65
Chapter 4. --- 作爲最佳候選人的處境和位置 --- p.66
Chapter 4.1 --- 張牧師的故事
Chapter 4.2 --- 王牧師的故事
Chapter 5. --- 她們的抗衡選擇 --- p.74
Chapter 5.1 --- 在宗派討論期間的參與角色
Chapter 5.2 --- 忠於所領受的呼召
Chapter 5.3 --- 被質疑按立動機
Chapter 5.4 --- 教育會眾關注女性封立
Chapter 5.5 --- 爭議之後，再讀神學
Chapter 5.6 --- 按立的選擇
Chapter 6. --- 總結 --- p.82
Chapter 第四章： --- 女性集體抗衡一宣道會例子 --- p.84
Chapter 1. --- 宗派背景特色 --- p.84
Chapter 1.1 --- 宗派成立與組織架構
Chapter 1.2 --- 宗派所言說的女性地位
Chapter 2. --- 開放按立政策的緣起 --- p.89
Chapter 2.1 --- 外在影響
Chapter 2.1.1 --- 社會趨勢
Chapter 2.1.2 --- 跨宗派際間之互動
Chapter 2.2 --- 內部蘊釀
Chapter 2.2.1 --- 九二年否決按立女牧師的議決
Chapter 2.2.2 --- 九五年從實際牧養角度展開討論
Chapter 3. --- 婦女的抗衡表現 --- p.100
Chapter 3.1 --- 婦女集體行動
Chapter 3.2 --- 針對實際問題
Chapter 3.3 --- 對男人領導原則的抗衡
Chapter 3.4 --- 從上主而來的呼召，與上主一同爭戰
Chapter 4. --- 總結 --- p.109
Chapter 第五章： --- 女性個別、被動的抗衡一中華基督會例子 --- p.111
Chapter 1. --- 宗派女性按立的背景 --- p.112
Chapter 1.1 --- 宗派早期女性牧職的傳統
Chapter 1.2 --- 香港區會女性牧職的發展
Chapter 2. --- 堂會層面的阻礙 --- p.116
Chapter 2.1 --- 堂會對女性事奉的抗拒
Chapter 2.2 --- 堂會抗拒女性牧職
Chapter 2.3 --- 宗派的組織結構問題限制實踐女性封職
Chapter 3. --- 女牧師的抗衡表現 --- p.123
Chapter 3.1 --- 個別抗衡
Chapter 3.2 --- 被動抗衡
Chapter 3.2.1 --- 持守崗位
Chapter 3.2.2 --- 跳槽
Chapter 4. --- 總結 --- p.133
結論篇 --- p.135
Chapter 1. --- 綜論 --- p.135
Chapter 2. --- 兩組相對應的抗衡表現 --- p.137
Chapter 2.1 --- 從個別抗衡到集體抗衡
Chapter 2.2 --- 從被動抗衡到主動參與
Chapter 3. --- 意義重尋：女牧師抗衡表現的多元性 --- p.139
Chapter 4. --- 宗教信仰與婦女抗衡 --- p.142
附件 --- p.145
附表一：香港華人女牧師按立年份表 --- p.145
附表二 ：有按立女牧師之宗派/堂會 --- p.148
圖一：香港華人女牧師按立人數 --- p.149
參考書目 --- p.150
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Venables, Heather Elaine. "Women and empowerment: strategies to achieve the liberation of women from oppression." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17796.
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Women today continue to struggle against male-dominated values and
norms, and male prejudices, both in society and the Church. This balance of power needs to be altered to free women from the domination of men. The strategies proposed in this dissertation are based on the Christian ethic of justice and equality. Their implementation, I argue, would empower women to resist oppression, independently of men, to achieve liberation and equality so that male-dominated ideologies and structures could no longer oppress. A case study of women ministers in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa revealed discrimination against, and the limitation of the ministries of women clergy. The ethical dilemma of the Church appearing to follow, rather than to lead society on such issues was noted. The attainment of the liberation of women is dependent solely upon themselves and the extent to which they are prepared to take responsibility for their own lives.M.Th. (Theological Ethics)
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Mulambya-Kabonde, Peggy. "Ordination of women : partnership, praxis and experience of the United Church of Zambia." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/10692.
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There exists a gender distortion in the United Church of Zambia (UCZ) concerning the participation of women in the ministry, mainly because of the biased patriarchal images about women and their role in church and society. To achieve the goal of women participation, the UCZ has to re-image their understanding of women from a historical bias to that of a fair, balanced, and historical inclusion of both genders. Consequently, this thesis called for the initiation of such a paradigm shift within the church. To achieve this, the UCZ Theological Seminary needed to realign its programmes and curricula in order to be more gender sensitive and thereby include more women scholars as partners in theological education. Such a theology of partnership between women and men was explored through the feminist discourse using ecclesiology and gender partnership theories.
This study is located within the United Church of Zambia (UCZ). It set out to explore the unequal partnership between the ordained women and men in the United Church of Zambia from a gendered perspective. Its focus was to address the praxis of partnership between women and men as reflected in the following areas: first, in the church policies on the ordination of women; second, in the experiences of patriarchy by the ordained women; and third, in the theological curriculum at the UCZ Theological Seminary.
In view of the above, the UCZ needed to work out interventions to control those leadership structures that are dominated by men and which only represent male interests. Even the theological curriculum offered at the UCZ Theological Seminary was not gender mainstreamed to assist both the clergy and laity to fully embrace the ordination and service of women. Consequently, the study addressed the key question as to how the church had promoted the unequal partnership between women and men in its policies and practices. This was guided by the hypothesis that although the UCZ had encouraged the ordination of women, yet there were no clear policies and practices that supported the partnership of women and men in the church structures and in the theological curriculum.
The data analysed in this study was obtained through in-depth interviews with representatives of Synod officers as policy-makers and ordained women. A survey questionnaire was used to generate a mixture of qualitative data with members of staff and students resident at the UCZ Theological Seminary. While previous studies on gender justice theory and praxis had been based upon rhetoric in addressing the gender justice issue in the UCZ, this present study availed a body of knowledge based on the recorded patriarchy experiences by women ordained ministers because of lack of a clear gender policy and gender mainstreaming of the theological education at the UCZ Theological Seminary.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2014.
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St, Pierre Simone Marie. "The struggle to serve : towards the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church." 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/17512.
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Rees, Sharon. "An examination of the Biblical role of women in contemporary church life." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/230.
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Submitted to the Faculty of Theology and Religion Studies in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Theology in the Department of Missiology, Religion Studies and Practical Theology at the University of Zululand, 2003.This dissertation focusses on the biblical role of women in the contemporary church, taking into account God's original plan and purpose for women in Genesis 1 and 2, the changes which occurred as a result of the Fall in Genesis 3, and the influence of the various cultures and traditions, especially in the Old Testament period, on the attitudes toward and treatment of women. Jesus' apparently revolutionary attitude towards women challenged the Jewish status quo, directing the people back to His Father's original plan and purpose for the relationship between men and women. His attitude is reflected in the teachings of the apostles in the New Testament, women being spiritually equal before God, yet having different and complementary roles and functions to fulfil. The clear hierarchical structure of authority which was laid down by God in the beginning, is therefore reinforced through Scripture. The strong influence of feminism over the past century is investigated, where women are demanding equal rights in all spheres. As a result, the call for full ordination of women within the Church is now widely acceptable even in evangelical circles. It appears that women are "abandoning" the biblical role which God ordained for them. The aim of this study is to explore the validity of women in leadership roles within the church and whether this practice deviates from God's original plan revealed in His Word or not. The research seeks to trace this tendency in some mainline churches and to prove the hypothesis that this is due to a misinterpretation of the Scriptures and a lack of biblical teaching on this subject. The central finding is that there certainly is confusion among today's Christians on this issue, and that feminist thinking has drawn both pastors and laity alike away from the biblical principles of authority. The study concludes that women do have a very crucial role to play in the contemporary church, a vast number of ministries being open to them, allowing them to exercise all their spiritual gifts. The only biblical restraint and prohibition, however, is that they are not permitted to preach, teach, lead or rule over men in any way within the church, such positions of authority being reserved for men only. Women should therefore be discouraged from assuming leadership over men, and should spend more time encouraging men to lead in a godly manner, both in the home and in the church, so that they might fulfil their God-ordained purpose. My submission is that if men and women live and serve Him within the authority structure which He has set in place, God will surely be glorified and His kingdom extended.
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Williams, Donald Murrell. "The decolonisation and africanisation of ordination in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27070.
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Summaries in English, Sesotho and IsizuluThe doctrine and practices of ordination in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) were adopted from the Wesleyan Methodist Church in England when the Southern African Conference was constituted in 1882. This replication, together with the influences of colonialism and a Western epistemology, negatively impacted the ministry and mission of the church. In response to the appeals for the decolonisation and Africanisation of the denomination’s practices, aspects relating to both the doctrine and practices of ordination have been adapted from the colonial past to our southern African context. However, many elements remain Western and the food cooking in the African pot lacks the taste of authentic ingredients grown in southern African soil. The study researches whether a decolonised and Africanised model of ordination would be very different from existing understanding and practices and examines the impact that a new model would have on the MCSA. Drawing from literature and interviews with persons in leadership positions in the MCSA, the study determines those aspects of southern African culture and spirituality that would be appropriate to assimilate into the present doctrine and practices. The liturgy of the Service of Ordination forms the basis on which the contributions of southern African culture are applied to the doctrine and practices of ordination. A similar process of evaluation and assimilation follows when applying the data gained from the interviews to the doctrine and practices of ordination in the MCSA. The thesis then concludes by proposing concrete changes to both the doctrinal understanding and practice of ordination in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.
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Massey, Lesly Forest. "The status of women in Christian churches : a contemporary theological dilemma." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/11392.
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Mongwe, Justice Mavanyisi. "Hearing all the drums: towards a more inclusive congregation." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2256.
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HEARING ALL THE DRUMS: TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE CONGREGATION is about
increasing the participation of women in positions of both leadership and church
ministry praxis within the Seventh Day Adventist church in South Africa. Women have
been excluded in the office of elder, and have been generally excluded from preaching
during the worship hour.
The research process followed a participatory way of doing research, while using
theories on social construction and post-modernist epistemological approach. The
theologies that inform this work are contextual in nature and include African and
Feminist theologies. In the pursuit for change, however, care is maintained to use
inclusive practices that attempt to avoid polarising the congregation and their
concomitant theologies.Practical Theology
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Haslebacher, Christian. "Bedeutung und hermeneutischen Implikationen der Verweise auf die Schöpfungsordnung und den Fall Evas in 1. Timotheus 2." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/9942.
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German textNach grundsätzlichen Überlegungen zur Allgemeingültigkeit, Kultur- und Zeitbezo-genheit neutestamentlicher Aussagen untersucht die vorliegende Studie das Lehrver-bot der Frauen im gesamtbiblischen Kontext. Dadurch resultiert 1. Timotheus 2:12-14 als Schlüsseltext in der Frage, ob Frauen für den leitenden und lehrenden Dienst in der Gemeinde zugelassen sind. Hinweise für das richtige Verständnis von 1. Ti-motheus 2:12-14 sind Vergleiche mit anderen paulinischen Verweisen auf erzählte Ereignisse des Alten Testaments und ihre Funktion im jeweiligen Diskurs, die Wir-kungsgeschichte der Schöpfungsreihenfolge und von Evas Fall im Frühjudentum sowie die Funktion dieser Verweise in der Argumentation im 1. Timotheusbrief. Ab-schliessend wird 1. Timotheus 2:12-14 im Bezug auf den unmittelbaren Kontext un-tersucht. Die vorliegende Arbeit schließt, dass 1. Timotheus 2:12-14 trotz der Ver-weise auf die Schöpfungsreihenfolge und den Fall Evas nicht als allgemeingültig zu verstehen ist.
After general reflections on universal validity, and on the cultural and temporal set-ting of New Testament propositions, this study examines the prohibition on women teaching in Christian congregations in the context of the whole Biblical canon. From this perspective, 1 Timothy 2:12-14 offers a key role for the validity of women as leaders and teachers. Clues towards a correct understanding of 1 Timothy 2:12-14 are to be found in comparisons with references to Old Testament events and their par-ticular function in Pauline discourse, in reception of the order of creation and fall of Eve in early Judaism, and in the function of these references in the argument of 1 Timothy. Finally, 1 Timothy 2:12-14 is examined in view of its immediate context. The thesis concludes that, despite its reference to the order of creation and the fall of Eve, 1 Timothy 2:12-14 should not be understood as an absolute prohibition.
New Testament
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Boeckle, Claudia. "Dienst der Frau: eine empirisch-theologische Untersuchung zu Lehr- und Leitungsaufgaben von Frauen in den „Freikirchen in Österreich“ (FKÖ)." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25942.
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In dieser Studie geht es um das Selbstverständnis von Frauen in Leiterschaft in drei von fünf Bünden, die im August 2013 als Freikirchen in Österreich (FKÖ) rechtlich anerkannt wurden. In Leitfadeninterviews äußern sich Leiterinnen zur sogenannten Frauenfrage, ihrem Glauben und ihren Aufgaben in der Gemeinde. Die Forschung findet anhand des empirisch-theologischen Praxiszyklus statt, das Kodieren der Daten und die anschließende Theoriegenerierung geschieht durch die Grounded Theory. Es werden vier Leitertypen aus den erarbeiteten Daten generiert: die Befreite, die ihre Leitungsaufgaben ungehindert erfüllt, die arrivierte Kämpferin, die andere überzeugen konnte, die aktive Kämpferin, die momentan vor Herausforderungen steht und die Suchende, die nicht sicher ist, wie die biblischen Texte zur Frauenfrage heute angewendet werden sollten. Verschiedene Auslegungstraditionen zu ausgewählten Bibelstellen zur Frauenfrage werden der Praxis in Freikirchen gegenübergestellt mit dem Ziel, Horizonte zu erweitern und Gemeindepraxis zu verändern.
This study is about the self-perception of women regarding their roles in leadership in the Free Churches of Austria (FKÖ). In guided interviews woman leaders reflect on aspects of women in ministry, such as being denied the office of teaching, their function in the church and the influence of their faith. The study is done using the empirical-theological practice cycle. The coding of the data and the generating of a theory is done according to the model of Grounded Theory. In the study four types of woman leaders emerge: the liberated woman, who fulfils her duties unimpeded; the successful fighter, who convinced others; the active fighter, who struggles with complementarian practices; and the searcher, who hasn’t found the best interpretations of the biblical texts. Biblical passages and their use with regard to women in ministry are compared to practices in certain churches, so to broaden perspectives and change church praxis.
Practical Theology
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Klammt, Thomas 1965. "A systematic theological investigation of the marks of the pastor according to contemporary baptist theology in South African and German contexts." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2373.
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Baptists regard ecclesiology as the field where they provide a unique contribution to Christian theology and practice. Yet, the Baptist Principles that summarize the distinctive beliefs of Baptists have not much to say about the position and role of the Baptist pastor. Instead, they emphasize the equality of all church members and their individual rights to participate and decide in church matters. This thesis investigates the theology of ministry from contemporary Baptist sources in South African and German contexts. The author takes from his own experience of ministry in both countries, but researches literature also from a wider range of backgrounds.
The first part provides a discussion of Baptist ecclesiology with a view to the topic of ministry. The Baptist Principles are scrutinized with specific focus on the Principles of the priesthood of all believers and of congregational church government. They allow for a variety of interpretations, but on the whole limit the position of the pastor rather than positively describing it. The same is true for the German Baptists' creedal document Rechenschaft vom Glauben. The author of this thesis sees his particular contribution to the topic in providing a positive characterization of the Baptist pastor.
He does so in the second part where he presents four pairs of marks of the pastor. "Called and Gifted" describes the divine origin of ministry. Both marks are not exclusive to pastors, but also have a general meaning that includes all church members. "Ordained and Trained" is summarized as a secondary category, which shows the human institutions and prerequisites for ministry. "Leader and Servant" is a seeming contradiction in terms, but has become idiomatic as a combined term to describe the Christian way of leadership, as proclaimed by Jesus. "Preacher and Shepherd" are both synonyms for the pastor. They emphasize different aspects of ministry, but can also be interpreted as contrasting in focus.
In his conclusion, the author relates the marks of the pastor to the Baptist Principles. From there, he formulates challenges for the understanding of pastors in Baptist churches in Germany and in South Africa.Systematic Theology
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