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    In Christianity, the ordination of women has been taking place in an increasing number of Protestant and Old Catholic churches, starting in the 20th century...
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    The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some contemporary major religious groups. It remains...
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    In the liturgical traditions of the Catholic Church, the term ordination refers to the means by which a person is included in one of the holy orders of...
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  • The ordination of women has been commonly practiced in Methodist denominations since the 20th century, and some denominations earlier allowed women to...
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    The ordination of women in the Anglican Communion has been increasingly common in certain provinces since the 1970s. Several provinces, however, and certain...
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    The Church of Scotland was one of the first national churches to accept the ordination of women. In Presbyterianism, ordination is understood to be an...
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    is a list of women found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. The list appears in alphabetical order. Abigail – mother of Amasa, Sister of David. I Chronicles...
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    roles of women in Christianity have varied since its founding. Women have played important roles in Christianity especially in marriage and in formal...
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    Episcopa Theodora (category Ordination of women in Christianity)
    "Review of Women in Pastoral Office. The Story of Santa Prassede, Rome, SchaeferMary". Gnomon. 89 (1): 42–46. doi:10.2307/26533899. ISSN 0017-1417. 'Et in ipso...
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    1 Timothy 2:12 (category Ordination of women in Christianity)
    to be in silence. — 1 Timothy 2:12, KJV The verse is widely used to oppose ordination of women as clergy, and to oppose certain other positions of ministry...
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    Saddleback Church (category Ordination of women in Christianity)
    christianpost.com, US, August 30, 2022 Adelle M. Banks, Saddleback Church’s ordination of women pastors to be considered by SBC committee, christianpost.com, US...
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    Muslim women, Women of Faith in Dialogue (1987). Christian feminism Christian egalitarianism Christian views about women Homosexuality and Christianity Green...
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  • ordination within the Church has been relatively recent. Throughout the Church's history, both men and women have worked to achieve the ordination of...
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    endorsed the ordination of openly LGBT persons. See LGBT clergy in Christianity. The United Church of Christ ordained openly gay Bill Johnson in 1972, and...
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  • Within Christianity, there are a variety of views on sexual orientation and homosexuality. The view that various Bible passages speak of homosexuality...
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    Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries...
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    relationship between Paul the Apostle and women is an important element in the theological debate about Christianity and women because Paul was the first writer...
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  • Ordain Women is a Mormon feminist organization that supports the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
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    interactions with women are an important element in the theological debate about Christianity and women. Women are prominent in the story of Jesus. According...
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    Heresy of Peor Jewish feminism Junia (New Testament person) List of women in the Bible Role of Christianity in civilization The Three Marys Women as theological...
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    egalitarianism, also known as biblical equality, is egalitarianism based in Christianity. Christian egalitarians believe that the Bible advocates for gender...
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  • present in the church. The issues that arise from the patriarchy in the church include the discouraged ordination of women, the lack of equality in a marriage...
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    Deaconess (category Christianity and women)
    women. Christianity portal Consecration History of hospitals History of nursing Ordination of women Macy, Gary (2007). The Hidden History of Women's Ordination:...
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  • Elisabeth Djurle (category Ordination of women in Christianity)
    Following her ordination in 1960, Djurle served in the parishes of Nacka, Spånga and Vällingby becoming a parish priest. When she retired in 1995, she was...
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    Biblical patriarchy (category Gender and Christianity)
    patriarchy, is a set of beliefs in Evangelical Protestant Christianity concerning gender relations and their manifestations in institutions, including...
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    Fallen woman (redirect from Fallen women)
    Street, 1925). Women as theological figures Women in Christianity Magdalene asylum Genealogy of Jesus: Tamar, Rahab, and Bathsheba Quoted in Stevens, Bethan...
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    Within Christianity, there are a variety of views on the issues of gender identity and transgender people. Christian denominations vary in their official...
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    Bo Giertz (category Ordination of women in Christianity)
    controversial stridency against the ordination of women. In 1958 the Church of Sweden voted to begin ordaining women; in strong disagreement with the modern...
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    Elise Pfister (category Ordination of women in Christianity)
    In 1918, together with Rosa Gutknecht, she was one of the first two women to graduate in theology. The same year, both were ordained as pastors of the...
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    Rosa Gutknecht (category Ordination of women in Christianity)
    In 1918, together with Elise Pfister, she was one of the first two women to graduate in theology. The same year, both were ordained as pastors of the...
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