Link resources: Holy Orders and Gender

Ordination of a Deacon, 1520

Anglicanism in North America

• Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) study concerning Presbyters (2003)

• AMiA supplement on the Diaconate (2006)

• 2017 ACNA Holy Orders Task Force Final Report, includes counter-point

• Response to Holy Orders Task Force Report

• No Other Foundation: Essays on Women's Ordination in the Anglican Church

Matthew Colvin (REC/ACNA) 4-part review of Prof William Witt's (Trinity School for Ministry/ACNA) recent book that argues for female priesthood

1. WHY IS WOMEN’S ORDINATION PLAUSIBLE?

2. WITT’S CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY

3. ERRORS OF PHILOLOGY

4. SYMBOLISM AND CONCLUSIONS

Fr Mark Perkins (APA) on Ordination and Embodiment, engaging with Prof Witt

1. Part 1: Clearing Ground

2. Part 2: Sex Difference in Genesis and St. Paul

3. Part 3: Jesus Christ, The Apostles, and Ordination

4. Part 4: Sacrificial Masculinity and the Priesthood

Bishop Win Mott (ACNA) on Holy Orders and Gender

1. Power, Jesus, and Women

2. Unshared Assumptions: Gender and Genesis

3. Jesus, the Humble Feminist

4. Recovering God’s Family

Supplemental posts

• Persona Christi - Fr. Alexander Wilgus

• CS Lewis on Priestesses

  • Leithart on Lewis' Essay

• Sacramental Representation and the Created Order - Blake Johnson

• Hail, Thou that Art Highly Favored - Brandon LeTourneau

Eastern Orthodox  

• Feminism and Tradition: Quiet Reflections on Ordination and Communion, by Fr Lawrence Farley

• Concerning Ordination, by Fr Alexander Schmemann

• Frederica Matthewes-Green http://ww1.antiochian.org/node/17953

• Woman and the Salvation of the World: A Christian Anthropology on the Charisms of Women, by Paul Evdokimov

Roman Catholic

• Ordinatio Sacerdotalis

• Without Precedent: Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women - Geoffrey Kirk (a former Anglican)

• Women in the Priesthood? - Manfred Hauke