Women Deacons? Essays with Answers
Women Deacons? Essays with Answers

Author: Phyllis Zagano

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0814683371

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The question of restoring women to the ordained diaconate surfaced during the Second Vatican Council and continued to resound in academic and pastoral circles well after the diaconate was restored as a permanent order in the church in the West. This volume contains twelve essays—five translated from Italian, three translated from French, and four in their original English—that answer the questions about the history and possible future of women deacons. Essays by: Yves Congar, OP Philippe Delhaye Peter Hünermann Valerie A. Karras Corrado Marucci, SJ Pietro Sorci, OFM Jennifer H. Stiefel Cipriano Vagaggini, OSB Cam Phyllis Zagano Ugo Zanetti, OSB

Women Religious, Women Deacons
Women Religious, Women Deacons

Author: Zagano, Phyllis

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 0809187728

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This booklet, comprising five essays, each with questions for discussion, is for anyone interested in the question of women religious and women deacons.

Women Deacons
Women Deacons

Author: Gary Macy

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 0809147432

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Three related essays by experts on the diaconate that examine the concept of women deacons in the Catholic Church from Thistorical, contemporary, and future perspectives.

At the Table of Holy Wisdom
At the Table of Holy Wisdom

Author: Reid, Barbara E.

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2024-01-08

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0809188155

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Wisdom is personified in the Bible as a female figure inviting us to a banquet. Those who yearn most for the message are the hungriest: women and children, especially those of color. Barbara Reid explores how feminist liberationist biblical interpretation is an essential tool to alleviate this hunger, extending the banquet metaphor.

Towards Just Gender Relations
Towards Just Gender Relations

Author: Gunter Prüller-Jagenteufel

Publisher: V&R Unipress

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 3847009850

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All over the world there is the move towards just gender relations – even if the odds seem to be less hopeful than a decade ago. This poses a special task for Christians and Churches in service of the marginalised who engage in the fight for justice. The articles collected in this volume provide insights from two intercultural theological conferences. The topic for the European-Asian dialogue focuses on "Gender and Ecclesiology". The European dialogue between western and eastern Central European countries has a special aim for gender theories and their theological and political implications. The book presents contributions from different perspectives and shows how the Christian churches can contribute to gender justice.

Women: Icons of Christ
Women: Icons of Christ

Author: Zagano, Phyllis

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1587688980

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Women: Icons of Christ traces the history of ministry by women, especially those ordained as deacons. The author demonstrates how women were removed from leadership, prevented from using their voices, and eliminated from official ministries in the life of the Church. And she refutes arguments against restoring women to the ordained diaconate.

Women in Church Ministries
Women in Church Ministries

Author: Margit Eckholt

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0814685137

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Regarding the question of office in the Christian churches, this volume illuminates with heightened ecumenical sensitivity the arguments for the participation of women in all church offices and ministries, without which there will be no way to the visible unity of the churches. It documents the ecumenical congress that took place in Osnabrück in December 2017 and the “Osnabrück theses”—meant to serve the future international and ecumenical conversation and further discussion about the questions of women in church offices—passed by the congress. The editors hope that this publication will help to set into motion a debate about ministries and services in the Church, which has been stagnant for a long time, and that it will become clear that these questions can only be answered together—by men and women—from now on.

Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies
Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies

Author: Maxwell E. Johnson

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2022-02-05

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 081466380X

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In Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies, renowned liturgical scholars Stefanos Alexopoulos and Maxwell E. Johnson fulfill the need for a new, comprehensive, and straightforward survey of the liturgical life of the Eastern Christian Churches within the seven distinct liturgical Eastern rites still in existence today: Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopic, East Syrian, West Syrian, and Maronite. This topical overview covers baptism, chrismation, Eucharist, reconciliation, anointing, marriage, holy orders, burial, Liturgy of the Hours, the liturgical year, liturgical ethos and spirituality, and offers a brief yet comprehensive bibliography for further study. This book will be of special interest to masters-level students in liturgy and theology, pastoral ministers seeking an introduction to the liturgies of the Christian East, and all who seek to increase their knowledge of the liturgical riches of the Christian East.

1 Timothy, Volume 2
1 Timothy, Volume 2

Author: Paul S. Jeon

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1498241840

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1 Timothy is one of the more controversial documents in the New Testament. For years, critical scholars have rejected Pauline authorship, highlighted the apparent misogynistic quality of the text, and argued against any coherence in the letter. Jeon takes a fresh look at the letter, incorporating many recent advancements in NT scholarship. In detail he demonstrates the macro- and micro- chiastic arrangement of the entire letter and explains how the presumed first-century audience would have heard and responded to an oral performance of the letter. In doing so, Jeon offers a fresh challenge to more popular ways of (mis)understanding the letter and points a way forward for appropriating the letter both in academia and in the church.

Courageous Humility
Courageous Humility

Author: Ditewig, William T.

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1587689707

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Courageous humility is a humility that takes risks, investing the talents and strengths God has given us for the good of others. The reflections revolve around that call: “Be strong and courageous!” Chapter One grounds the project in the Trinity, the core dogma of the Church. From the earliest days of the Church, humility has been seen as the heart of Christian communal life, so Chapter Two examines the classic insights on humility from St. Benedict and his groundbreaking Rule. Humility should be the foundation of all the various external structures we create to support our mission of evangelization. Chapter Three offers some suggestions on ecclesial structural reform. Building on these foundational chapters, the succeeding chapters focus on the diaconate within this context of ecclesial humility. Chapter Four discusses the sacramentality of the diaconate. Chapter Five suggests revisions to the Code of Canon Law vis-à-vis the diaconate, and Chapter Six recommends developments in the liturgy of diaconal ordination. Chapter Seven responds to some of the recurring issues of the diaconate, and Chapter Eight discusses how the Church may tap the full potential of the renewed diaconate.