Icons of Christ
a biblical and systematic theology for women's ordination
$139.20
- Paperback
447 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2021
Summary
The pastoral office is one of the most critical in Christianity. Historically, however, Christians have not been able to agree on the precise nature and limits of that office. A specific area of contention has been the role of women in pastoral leadership. In recent decades, three broad types of arguments have been raised against women’s ordination: nontheological (primarily cultural or political), Protestant, and Catholic. Reflecting their divergent understandings of the purpose of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781481313193 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1481313193 |
| Author: | William G. Witt |
| Publisher: | Baylor University Press |
| Imprint: | Baylor University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 447 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 25mm |
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Icons of Christ will be the book for Christians to engage with as the long debate over women’s ordination continues in the various streams of Christianity. Its ecumenical engagement with both Protestant and Catholic arguments makes it stand out as a unique contribution, equally capable of grappling with biblical exegesis and the historic Christian tradition.
–Alex Strohschein “Reading Religion”Witt’s presentation of the confessional divide that emerges in these debates is his greatest gift and the most innovative thing about the book as a whole. His insight that Protestant and Catholic resistance to women’s ordination does not take the same form or come from the same place, and is even contradictory on a fundamental level, is valuable and important for women, and particularly for women clergy, to understand.
–Hannah W. Matis “Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology”Witt is to be commended for his groundbreaking methodology that exposes how both Catholic and Protestant theologians support male leadership by interpreting key passages in ways that esteem women as inferior to men–a view at odds with the entire canon. In doing so, Witt also reveals how this longstanding, but failed interpretative path also promotes a distorted worldview that devalues women simply because they are born female.
–Mimi Haddad “CBE International”About The Author
William G. Witt
William G. Witt is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Trinity School for Ministry.
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