Apostolic Women, Apostolic Authority

by Rees, Christina; Percy, Martyn; Gaffin, Jenny (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780819224507
• ISBN10: 0819224502
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Morehouse Pub Co

Summary

Apostolic Women, Apostolic Authority addresses the state of women's leadership in the Anglican Communion and highlights the distinctive contribution women make when they take on senior posts. This collaborative work incorporates stories, theological reflection, and biblical scholarship, welcoming readers into a riveting conversation about the future of women, ministry, leadership, and communion. Contributors, including Katharine Jefferts Schori, Catherine Roskam, and other women Anglican leaders, reflect on their shared experience as apostolic women. bull; Part One looks at the role of women in the light of scripture and tradition bull; Part Two explores women and ecclesiastical leadership bull; Part Three assesses the challenges facing women's ministry today and explores some spiritual resources for meeting them bull; Part Four imagines some possible futures

Author Biography

Martyn Percy is Principal of Ripon College Cuddeson and the Oxford Ministry Course. Christina Rees served as Chair of WATCH (Women and the Church), helping to spearhead England's movement for the ordination of women to the episcopate.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Series by the Archbishop of Canterbury	p. ix
Foreword to the U.S. Edition	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xix
About the Contributors	p. xxi
Preface	p. xxvii
Introduction	p. 1
Scripture and Tradition
Follow Who? A Search for the Sacred Feminine in the New Testament	p. 13
How did Jesus Develop Women as Leaders?	p. 22
'More Spirited than Lions': Apostolic Women and the Proclamation of the Gospel	p. 30
Some Reflections on Women and Leadership in Anglican Religious Communities	p. 41
Leadership and Ecclesiastical Authority
Reflections on Women, Authority and the Church from an American Perspective	p. 53
Women in Leadership	p. 65
Size Matters: Why Don't Women Lead Large Churches?	p. 76
Women and Leadership: What's the Difference?	p. 86
Facing the Change
Benedict Revisited	p. 97
In Search of a Spirituality of Authority	p. 106
'For God's Sake'	p. 114
Evangelical Women, Spirituality and Leadership	p. 124
The Character of the Future
What Clergy Do, Especially When it Looks Like Nothing	p. 137
Women, the Church and the World	p. 147
Episcope and Eiscope	p. 156
The Evangelical Burden and Imperative	p. 165
Closing Reflection	p. 177
2009 Clergy Compensation Report-Gender Statistics	p. 181
2006 State of the Clergy Report-Gender Statistics and Analysis	p. 184
Notes	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 209
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 215
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