Sentences with phrase «ordination means»

My ordination means that my hometown church, where I first heard God speak to me, made my profession of faith, was baptized, and made my commitment to vocational Christian service, will not permit me even to speak to a Sunday school class, much less preach.

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School feminist, declared, «Ordination means subordination [to] an elite, male - dominated, sacred, pyramidal order of domination.»

Not exact matches

Here Coll presumably means a commissioning for service (pp205 - 206) rather than a definition of ordination in terms of the liturgy of the Mass and «its relationship to the Eucharist» (pp171, 214).

This doesn't mean I don't value my baptism and confirmation and ordination — of course I do.

What could it mean for the struggle over sexual orientation and ordination that is going on in all of our denominations if we began, not from some culturally inherited moral code, but from the thought - filled recognition of our discipleship of the compassionate Christ?

Paul King Jewett, Man as Male and Female and The Ordination of Women (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975, 1980); Don Williams, The Apostle Paul and Women in the Church (Van Nuys: BIM Publishing Co., 1977); Letha Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty, All We're Meant to Be: A Biblical Approach to Women's Liberation (Waco: Word, 1977); Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Women, Men and the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon, I977).

One well - meaning moderator changed all of the «brother in Christ» language at an ordination service to «daughter in Christ.»

Feminine theology calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth — including the model of the ordained minister or priest, for «ordination» means accepting the authority of the traditional Christian framework and being licensed to carry on that tradition.

Advocates of women's suffrage and women's ordination fall into this camp, as do Beverly Wildung Harrison (in some of her work), Shulamith Firestone and others who argue not just for the transcendence of gender roles but for technological and social means of neutralizing sexual difference.

The surface algorithm shows the efficiency of the water - energy dynamic to be used in ordination of plant strategies as the input variable mean ground frost frequency is not used to ordinate the strategy here.