Should Women Want Women Priests or Women-Church?

In this article, Rosemary Ruether details the development of the Roman Catholic Women’s ordination movement in the US and the emergence of the Women-church Movement as a critique of the drive to ordain women and recreate the clerical caste system. She then outlines the emergence of the Roman Catholi...

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Main Author: Ruether, Rosemary Radford 1936-2022 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2011
In: Feminist theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-72
Further subjects:B Women-church
B Vatican
B Feminism
B Roman Catholic Womenpriests
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Summary:In this article, Rosemary Ruether details the development of the Roman Catholic Women’s ordination movement in the US and the emergence of the Women-church Movement as a critique of the drive to ordain women and recreate the clerical caste system. She then outlines the emergence of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests Movement which decided to find bishops and proceed with women’s ordination. She explores the disagreements between these two movements and a way to resolve this by accepting different contexts for the two movements.
ISSN:1745-5189
Contains:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0966735011411814