When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and
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Vital to the current debate about women and the Church, this book discloses that women played prominent leadership roles in Jesus' own ministry and in the early Church - as prophets, heads of churches and teachers. It explains why women were marginalized and scapegoated as the Church successfully emerged as a public institution and what the reasons were for women's subordination in Christianity.
Author: Karen Toriesen (Margo Goldsmith Professor, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, USA)
Format: Hardback, 240 pages, 146mm x 216mm, 430 g
Published: 1993, HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Australia
Genre: Christian History & Denominations
Vital to the current debate about women and the Church, this book discloses that women played prominent leadership roles in Jesus' own ministry and in the early Church - as prophets, heads of churches and teachers. It explains why women were marginalized and scapegoated as the Church successfully emerged as a public institution and what the reasons were for women's subordination in Christianity.