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The Force of the Feminine: Women, Men and the Church book cover

1st Edition

The Force of the Feminine Women, Men and the Church

Edited By Margaret Ann Franklin Copyright 1986
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1986. The Force of the Feminine brings together the work of Christians from a number of denominations in examining different aspects of the task of converting the Church to the ‘feminine’. Women have by and large occupied a subordinate position within the Church: men have written the theology; in the majority of denominations only men have always been permitted to be... Read more

Introduction; 1: Woman and the Church; 2: The Role of the Church in the Education of Girls and Women; 3: Sexism and Fundamentalism; 4: The Ordination of Women: On whose side is the Bible?; 5: The Ordination of Women: The position of the Catholic Church; 6: The Ordination of Women: A psychological interpretation of objections; 6: Institutional Sexism and the Anglican Church; 8: Ministers’ Wives; 9: A Clergy Wife’s Story; 10: God and Pronouns; 11: Affirmative Action in the Uniting Church 1977-83; 12: A Quixotic Approach; 13: The Feminisation of Structures in Religious Orders; 14: Implications of the Feminine; 15: Christian Conversion and the Feminine

Biography

Margaret Ann Franklin

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