Women Defying the Church
In a gesture of solidarity, these women are boldly defying the Catholic church by becoming ordained as priests and one as a deacon. This comes after The Vatican announced in a general decree back in May that it will excommunicate anyone who would attempt to ordain a woman as a priest and the woman herself.
Perhaps Adventist women pastors, present and future, who have been "encouraged" to pursue other career options or college degrees can take something positive from this.
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I mentioned on another discussion here that I have just completed reading Elizabeth Fiorenza's book 'In Memory of Her'. Unfortunatley it is full of jargon and somewhat pedantic, however she has made a major contribution to christian feminism and the question of women's rights in the church (she is Roman Catholic).
Her hermeneutics of suspicion regarding the male dominated accounts in both the Old and the New Testament deserve a little more attention than they have been given in evangelical churches. Some of the shocking cultural views of women expressed in Leviticus and Deuteronomy make me sometimes wonder what the creation account would look like if it had been written by a woman - I am quite sure it would have been Adam rather than Eve who had tasted the forbidden fruit.
My thoughts: execute a Jesus revolution (humble, loving, unitive, self-sacrificial, concerned with service), not a Marxist one (aggressive, rebellious, divisive, disparaging of all hierarchy, obsessed with the language of power).
If you enjoyed Fiorenza's book, you would also be interested in reading those by Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine. I especially recommend Called to Question.
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