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	Ordination of Women
		Now, in the case of Reformed men who are open to the ordination of women to the office of deacon, that may not be their primary motivation, although such an influence may be working on them as well.
		Women who are married to church officers can be some of the biggest problems in the church if they do not have Christian maturity and wisdom.
		Many women would say, "Why should I bother going to seminary, if I am not going to be able to use this in the church?" Thus if a seminary is open to the ordination of women, women might see a greater reason to come and study at the seminary.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~seccomn/phil/ordinationwm.htm (3014 words)

	USCCB - SEIA - Statement on the Ordination of Women
		Recently the question of ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate has become an increasingly pressing issue in our churches, but the state of the question is not the same in both.
		In the current situation, the question of the ordination of women has raised issues which cannot be answered adequately by the mere citing of traditional practices or beliefs.
		Presenting men and women with hope in the fulfillment of their destiny beyond this life, it also assumes, under the cross of its Lord, the burdens and the struggles of the oppressed, the poor, and the suffering.
	www.usccb.org /seia/arcwomenordination1975.shtml (2213 words)

	PC(USA) - Women's Ordination Celebrations, Women Tending the Flame: Women Called to Lead
		Thus we celebrate in 2006 the 50th anniversary of women ordained as ministers of Word and Sacrament.
		Song, performance painting, poetry, dance and the flow of baptismal water highlighted the festivities at General Assembly Monday night in celebrating the ordination of women in the Presbyterian Church.
		As part of the 2005–2006 celebration of the ordination of women as deacons, elders and ministers in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and in recognition of the leadership of women in the church and in the wider community, the survey will provide the rich collection of personal histories and a resource for years to come.
	www.pcusa.org /women/ordination/index.htm (977 words)

	Women's Ordination
		The drive toward ordination as elders was a direct result of these movements as Katharine Bennett and Margaret Hodge, the former leaders of the women's boards, led the argument for equality in the church.
		In 1930 the presbyteries approved the ordination of women as elders — a major turning point in the church away from fundamentalism and toward equality and respect for women's contributions to the church.
		Eunice Blanchard Poethig is moderator of the Women's Ordination Mission Team in the Presbytery of Chicago; former executive presbyter for Western New York Presbytery; and former director of the Congregational Ministries Division of the General Assembly Council.
	www.witherspoonsociety.org /2006/women's_ordination.htm (1508 words)

	Searching the Scriptures: Chapter 6, Biblical Obstacles to Women's Ordination — By Samuel Koranteng-Pipim
		Second, in Paul's prohibiting women to speak, the key phrase "but they are commanded to be under obedience" indicates that the kind of speaking Paul ruled out is one which involved not being "under obedience," that is, one which constituted an exercise of authority inappropriate to them as women or wives.
		Advocates for women's ordination do not accept the permanent validity of the headship principle as the most biblically consistent explanation for the lack of scriptural precedent for ordaining women to certain leadership roles in the church, such as priests in the Od Testament and apostles and elders/pastors in the New Testament.
		Yet these women were not ordained to the roles of apostle, elder or pastor because the New Testament church understood the headship principle that precluded women from exercising the leadership function in the worshiping community.
	www.greatcontroversy.org /books/ss/ss6.html (6337 words)

	Luke Swartz's Home Page: Women in the Priesthood
		Furthermore, there is mounting evidence that even the “two thousand years” of all-male priesthood may be a fallacy; a historian recently found that “the ordination of women was once an accepted practice” and was not forbidden until “a church council of the fourth century” (Connell A1).
		Opponents of women’s ordination say that Jesus’ omission of a single women from the Twelve (despite his generally progressive attitude towards women at the time) proves that the selection of twelve men for his apostles was by design.
		The ordination of women is perfectly acceptable on the grounds of history, logic, scripture, and practicality.
	www.lukeswartz.com /writing/womenordination.html (1463 words)

	Trinity Foundation: Explaining God, man, Bible, salvation, philosophy, theology. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ordination confers on the minister the authority to preach the Word, and since the sacraments require the Word, ordination confers the authority to administer the sacraments, and also, in conjunction with other ordained men, the authority of the keys.
		The successful introduction of the ordination of women into liberal churches is one with the general outlook of women’s liberation.
		Apart from the excesses of left-wing philosophy, the permissiveness of parents and society, and the stress on women’s alleged rights even to permitting a teenage girl to get an abortion in defiance of her parents-apart from this sort of thing, it is doubtful that anyone would have agitated for the ordination of women.
	www.trinityfoundation.org /journal.php?id=17 (6003 words)

	Ordination of women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Women are also able to live the Consecrated Life as a nun or abbess, and throughout the history of the Church it has not been uncommon for an abbess to head a dual monastery, i.e.
		Setting aside these theological considerations, advocates for the ordination of women have pointed to vocations declining in Europe and North America and have made the utilitarian argument that women must be ordained in order to have enough priests to administer the Sacraments in those areas.
		Within provinces which permit the ordination of women, there are some dioceses, such as the dioceses of Quincy, Illinois and Fort Worth, Texas, in the USA, which do not, or which ordain women only to the diaconate (such as the Diocese of Sydney in the Anglican Church of Australia).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ordination_of_women (5805 words)

	Welcome to Catholic Womens Ordination - For Women's Ordination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Given the above distortions in the present theology of the church on women, it is urgent that we must to listen to women's voices today as they articulate a call to priesthood.
		One of the main arguments against the ordination of women is that women are not made in the likeness of Christ.
		It is unfair on women that 80% of pastoral workers in the worldwide church are women, yet no positions of authority are held by women.
	www.catholic-womens-ordination.org.uk /for.htm (355 words)

	Transfiguration: Ordination of Women
		Finally we come to the theological error of those who support women’s ordination; the one most crucial for traditional Christians but of little interest to the typical secularist sitting in the pews of our churches or voting in national conventions.
		The advocates of women’s ordination either so emphasize sin and redemption that they forget that this redemption was achieved through male flesh, or else they use the doctrine of the Incarnation to so spiritualize Jesus and all humanity as to ignore or deprecate the flesh.
		The view that women cannot recieve the sacrament of holy orders means that apart from Our Lady, women are not necessary for the Church to function as Church, since childbearing is NOT an ECCLESIAL function since the Church reproduces virginally by baptism.
	fatherjohnheidt.blogspot.com /2006/08/ordination-of-women.html (4357 words)

	The Ordination of Women
		The problems which seem to confront the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church today revolving around the issue of the ordination of women to major holy orders are, to say the least, complex and laden with emotion, fueled with misunderstanding, confusion and some of the greatest theological concerns of our present day.
		The ordination to the sacramental priesthood is an extension of the basic sacrificial and prophetic sharing that has already been given in baptism.
		It is important because those on both sides of the issue of the ordination of women to the priesthood, use the word tradition, but not always in the correct context of the appropriate meaning.
	www.evangelicalorthodoxcatholic.org /ordwomen.html (5290 words)

	Ordination of Women
		From a scriptural and theological perspective, is the ordination of women antithetical to the canon?
		Women in Christ’s time were not educated and rabbis even warned against teaching the law to women.
		More generally, women were expected to spend most of their lives at home and were widely seen as a temptation to sin.
	www.regent.edu /acad/schbus/cur/cmba610/cmba610m11/example.html (1630 words)

	The Ordination of Women
		Even those who argue against the ordination of women have to acknowledge that the Pentecostal paradigm creates a new context for the ministry of women in the Christian church.
		A contemporary theology of ordination cannot be read back into the biblical text, but the text can be instructive to us today as it reveals the ministry of women in the early church.
		The silence of women on such occasions is a carryover from the synagogue, and it was a sign of “reverence” not limitation.
	archives.umc.org /interior.asp?mid=1088 (1033 words)

	PC(USA) - Women's Ordination Celebrations, Resources
		Commemorating the anniversary of the ordination of women as deacons (100 years), elders (75 years) and ministers of Word and Sacrament (50 years), the pin is based on the logo of the Tending the Flame: Women Called to Lead events.
		This timeline, created by a NNPCW alumna, describes the history of women's ordination in the church based upon research from General Assembly minutes of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and its predecessor denominations, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church of America.
		This service, created by Karen Breckenridge, co-chair of the PC(USA) Advocacy Committee for Women's Concerns, was used by National Ministries staff and elected members during their September 2005 meeting in Sacramento, Calif. The service asks participants to remember God's call to each of them as they also celebrate the anniversaries of women's ordinations.
	www.pcusa.org /women/ordination/resources.htm (840 words)

	Women Priests in Catholic Church? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I begin with the assumption that doctrinally the issue of women's ordination is settled.
		Saying women can never be ordained, can never attain some position that is reserved exclusively for men, goes against the grain of everything our culture stands for.
		The most comon argument against women's ordination is that Jesus did not choose them as part of his Twelve apostles.
	sycophants.info /women-priests.html (2212 words)

	MNHS.ORG \| Library \| History Topics \| Ordination of Women in the Episcopal Church
		The long struggle for women's ordination as priests in the American Episcopal Church began in the mid-1850s and lasted for almost 125 years.
		Her ordination as an Episcopal priest — the attainment that she considered the ultimate fulfillment of her life — came long after retirement from her earlier brilliant career.
		On July 29, 1974, forty years after her flight into the stratosphere, Dr. Piccard and ten other women broke the barrier so long in place against the ordination of women to the priesthood of the Anglican Church when they were "irregularly" ordained to the priesthood in Philadelphia.
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/111episcopal.html (858 words)

	The Ordination of Women-Award Winning Documentary
		Women priests are regarded by many Christian communities as a dangerous or daring innovation.
		They insist that women priests are incompatible with orthodox belief, that the Christian priesthood has a fundamentally masculine character.
		For supporters of the ordination of women to the priesthood, Dr. Giorgio Otranto's (University of Bari in Italy) claim that there were women priests in ancient Christendom is dynamite.
	www.womensordination.com (820 words)

	Welcome to Catholic Womens Ordination - Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		You may have seen or heard about a recent interview in the Catholic Herald with the Archbishop of Canterbury, in which he was reported as saying that the ordination of women might have to be revisited at some point, and giving the impression that he was not fully in support of it.
		Lambeth Palace issued a statement yesterday to say that the Archbishop comments had been misrepresented and that he was fully supportive of women's ordination and grateful for the ministry that women exercised.
		Speaking during a visit to Manchester, Dr. Williams declared his continuing support for the ordination of women to the priesthood.
	www.catholic-womens-ordination.org.uk (668 words)

	Ordination of Women
		But being a later addition, this ordination lacks the status of having been established by the Buddha and lacks the authority of an ancient tradition and thus social and cultural prejudices have been able to take root and prevail.
		Thus a female novice is more of a renunciant than the white robed Thai nun, and, wearing robes similar in appearance to those of a monk, she may get more of the respect she deserves.
		All it needs is the motive for doing the bending, and that motive will increase as do the numbers of women who show by their example a willingness to surrender to a renunciant life.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /ordination_of_women.htm (859 words)

	WAiB - Resources on Women's Ordination
		Samten Tse is a women's retreat centre for individual retreats and for resident nuns founded by Ven.
		Preparing for Ordination: Reflections for Westerners Considering Monastic Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition is a series of articles by Asian and Western monastics for non-Tibetans who are considering monastic ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
		She founded the Jamyang Chöling Institute for Buddhist Women in India and is currently in the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawai'i.
	members.tripod.com /~Lhamo/4ordin.htm (2694 words)

	Buddhist Studies: Buddhism & Women: Buddhists Affirm Equality
		Sila, the laws of Buddhist discipline, stipulate that the ordination of women to become bhikkhuni requires the presence of both ordained monks (bhikkhu) and nuns.
		To solve the ordination problem, the upcoming ceremony in Bodh Gaya will be officiated by both Buddhist monks from around the world and by 15 Buddhist nuns who received their ordination in Taiwan.
		The women from India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand who will be receiving ordination in February should not expect a warm welcome from all of their Buddhist brethren when they return to their respective countries.
	www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/history/equality.htm (683 words)

	It Didn't All Begin with Ordination
		Women have been leaders in the Lutheran Church long before the issue of women’s ordination was ever considered.
		It would be nearly impossible to have all the facets of women’s contributions to the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America depicted in one display.
		In considering this exhibit, the starting point was the 20th anniversary of the ordination of women in North America (1970- 1990).
	www.elca.org /archives/ordination (488 words)

	Ordination of Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Using sharia to justify the subjugation of women is silly.
		The ordination of an active homosexual who left his wife and children to live with a man is simply a continuation of the trend to graft the current socially fashionable idea that Gay is Great onto the church.
		One of the big issues in the ordination of women related to homosexual ordination are the methods (or lack thereof) of interpreting scripture.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-religion/1686697/posts (2931 words)

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