A Voice in the Wilderness
A Voice in the Wilderness

Author: Andrew Jenson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0190867825

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Voice in the Wilderness features all twenty-eight of Assistant Church Historian Andrew Jenson's sermons at LDS General Conference, with introductions and annotations that place the sermons within their historical and religious contexts. This study of Jenson's sermons moves the focus off the Mormon hierarchy at general conference, uncovering the richness and diversity that thrives just beneath the surface of official ecclesiastical discourse.

Women Towards Priesthood
Women Towards Priesthood

Author: Jacqueline Field-Bibb

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1991-02-22

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780521392839

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book charts the aspirations of women towards priesthood and the resistance that they have encountered. It brings together a record of official documents and debates on the issue that takes place over the last two hundred years in the English Methodist Church, the Church of England, and the Roman Catholic Church. These debates are interpreted at a number of levels, and the author draws on sociology, history, biblical studies, theology, and psychoanalysis in the course of her presentation. In the author's view it is the patriarchalisation of ecclesiastical structures, and the subsequent theological and christological justification given over to this, which emerges as a recurring pattern in the debate. Dr Field-Bibb offers a feminist analysis of such resistance to the ordination of women, in an attempt to break down what she sees as the false consciousness engendered by the propagation of subversive symbols.