The hidden history of women's ordination female clergy in the medieval West

The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even recognise that women are capable of ordination. But is the widely held assumption that women have always been excluded from such roles historically accurate? Gary Macy investigates in this text

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macy, Gary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2008, c2008
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even recognise that women are capable of ordination. But is the widely held assumption that women have always been excluded from such roles historically accurate? Gary Macy investigates in this text
Physical Description:xiv, 260 p.
ISBN:9780199868575
0199868573