He objected that he had only acknowledged that, since the role
of deaconesses in the early Church was a bit unclear, it would be good to clarify it.
An additional factor in Protestantism was the introduction
of deaconesses patterned after the German Lutheran program.
This inevitably leads into the first point, that ordination
of deaconesses would not threaten ordination to the priesthood.
Where there is already confusion in the minds of people — and many lay people do not appreciate that deacons are not co-workers since they do not share in the ministerial priesthood, nor can they confect the Eucharist or administer the Sacrament of Reconciliation or the Sacrament of the Sick — it seems that the introduction
of deaconesses may simply add to the confusion.
Gil T clearly explained his point about the NT priesthood that everyone (all believers in Jesus Christ) are included in it but the church management (priests, pastors, etc.) is a different story although not completely disassociated from the former (i.e. example
of the deaconess).
O eternal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of man and of woman, who didst replenish with the Spirit Miriam, and Deborah, and Anna, and Huldah; who didst not disdain that thine only - begotten Son should be born of a woman; who also in the Tabernacle of the testimony and in the Temple, didst ordain women to be keepers of thy holy gates, do thou now also look down upon this thy servant, who is to be ordained to the office
of a deaconess, and grant her thy Holy Spirit... that she may worthily discharge the work.19
Beginning with the obscure reference of canon 19 of Nicaea respecting Paulinian 18 deaconesses and ending with canon 15 of Chalcedon which prohibits the ordination (cheirotonia)
of a deaconess before the age of forty we have the canonical framework of the most significant period in the expansion and elaboration of the ministry of women before modern times.
BIDMC was formed with the merger
of Deaconess Hospital (founded in 1896) and the Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916).
Not exact matches
Rather, the pager is a symbol
of Apstein's other life: as a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, where he specializes in diseases
of the digestive tract, including the liver.
Results from a preclinical study conducted in collaboration with researchers at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center evaluating the combination
of a proprietary investigational oral toll - like receptor 7 agonist, GS - 9620, and a proprietary investigational broadly neutralizing antibody, as part
of an HIV eradication strategy.
Skowron completed his residency at one
of Harvard's main teaching hospitals, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center.
On January 7, 2002, Paul Levy became CEO
of the Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, a troubled organization, in serious financial difficulty.
Beth Israel
Deaconess System now has a variety
of skills used in the voice assistants in patient rooms.
Starting backwards with Coll's fourth point, that it is what deacons and
deaconesses are rather than what they do that is significant for the Church, Coll explains that on the issue
of ordination generally, the «ontological» versus «functional» debate continues (p207).
Thirdly, «the
deaconesses of the early Church were ordained according to the meaning
of the word at the time and therefore can be so again».
The first finding appears to exclude women on the grounds that
deaconesses were not admitted to the same office as deacons, and the second finding names the problem the ordination
of women as deacons would pose for understanding the unity
of the sacrament.
The burden
of proof seems to lie with those who argue that
deaconesses belonged to the same order as deacons.
(1) the
deaconesses in the early Church, from the evidence related to their rites
of institution and their functions, «were not purely and simply equivalent to the deacons»; and
Diaconal Ministers grew out
of the Catholic understanding
of deacons /
deaconesses.
Jesus» family is not just afraid that he is «beside himself» but that he has «gone out
of his mind» (Mark 3:21) Phoebe is not a «
deaconess» (RSV) but a «deacon,» fully an equal
of men and a «benefactor» or patron, not just a «helper» (RSV — Rom.
Furthermore, the injunctions against speech and authority are internally contradicted by the equally scriptural witness to the activity
of women in the earliest Church: Mary the mother
of God praying with the disciples, Priscilla instructing Apollos, Phoebe serving as
deaconess, and so on.
In the latter part
of the nineteenth century the Protestant Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist denominations in particular called upon women in comparatively large numbers to serve as
deaconesses.
The actual translation
of the word diakonos into english is «
deaconess.»
Thanks to ICANtweets I learned that the Today Show aired a live Cesarean section from Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston as part
of the «Today Goes Inside the OR» series.
Dr. Miller is on the teaching faculty
of the Harvard Medical School and has full operating privileges at Beth Israel
Deaconess Hospital, New England Baptist Hospital and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
She is also the director
of mind / body services at Boston IVF, associate professor, part time
of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School, and senior psychologist at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center.
Human investigation committees
of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center approved the study, and mothers
of all participating children gave written informed consent.
«Breast milk contains certain things that might be protective later on in life and might actually program an infant's metabolism at a very early stage,» said Dr. Nisha Parikh, lead investigator
of the study and cardiovascular fellow at the Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Umahi on the death
of his mother,
Deaconess Margaret Umahi.
The main event is set to witness the presence
of the first lady
of Kwara state,
Deaconess Omolewa Ahmed who has been honoured as the Grand Matron
of the day.
Clifford Saper is the James Jackson Putnam Professor
of Neurology and Neuroscience and Chairman
of the Harvard Department
of Neurology at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center.
Clifford B. Saper, professor
of neurology and neuroscience at the Harvard Medical School and chair
of the Department
of Neurology at the Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center said that «99 percent
of scientists agree — a loss
of sleep is deleterious.»
A vaccine is «really the only optimal method
of control for this dreadful pandemic,» says Raphael Dolin
of the Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who also wrote an editorial accompanying the October paper.
On 15 April, Michael B. Yaffe, who holds positions at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, was rehabilitating a broken leg when two bombs exploded near the finish line
of the Boston Marathon.
«A significant body
of research has resulted in a shift from thinking
of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects
of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director
of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor
of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
New research led by investigators at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) may now help clinicians assess an individual patient's risk
of developing post-operative delirium, enabling preventive measures to safeguard their health.
We showed that a one - time dose
of the drug mirabegron stimulates human brown adipose tissue so that it consumes glucose and burns calories,» said lead author Dr. Aaron Cypess, who conducted the work at Joslin Diabetes Center and Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, affiliates
of Harvard Medical School, and is now at the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part
of the National Institutes
of Health.
Even the imaging tests that doctors use to make the case for back surgery, including MRI, X-rays, and CT scans, are not very good at pinpointing the cause
of pain, comments Jerome Groopman, chief
of experimental medicine at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and author
of How Doctors Think.
«Guidelines are meant to create a succinct roadmap for the diagnosis and treatment
of medical conditions by analyzing and summarizing the increasingly abundant medical research,» write Joseph Feuerstein, M.D., and colleagues from Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center.
Now a study led by researchers at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) confirms that inflammation — an immune response that develops when the body attempts to protect itself from harmful stimuli — plays a role in the onset
of delirium.
It is the new digital equivalent
of a «curbside consult» where a physician might ask a friend or colleague for quick input on a medical case without setting up a formal, expensive consultation, says Ateev Mehrotra, an associate professor
of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center.
Now, a team
of investigators led by Lev T. Perelman, PhD, Director
of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging and Photonics at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), has developed a promising new tool capable
of distinguishing between harmless pancreatic cysts and those with malignant potential with an overall accuracy
of 95 percent.
Healthy adults mounted strong immune responses after receiving an investigational whole inactivated Zika virus vaccine, according to interim analyses
of three Phase 1, placebo - controlled, double - blind trials conducted at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Walter Reed Army Institute
of Research (WRAIR), and Saint Louis University School
of Medicine.
«This study helps illuminate why people who have dealt with childhood adversity face a higher risk
of developing excess belly fat and related health conditions,» said one
of the study's authors, Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, DSc, PhD,
of Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center and the VA Boston Healthcare System, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.
«No data from humans vaccinated with adenovirus 5 vectors are described in this paper,» says one
of them, Dan Barouch
of the Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School.
The discovery, published in this month's Nature Genetics, is «a nice validation
of the earlier prediction,» says Jeffrey Flier
of Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Driving to the
Deaconess Hospital Wound Care Center, I let Ginger out
of the car, and we progressed across the parking lot.
«We don't actually know how big
of a role genetics play in the placebo effect,» says study coauthor Kathryn Hall, a molecular biologist at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
«With technological improvements, medical imaging has become an increasingly vital tool in diagnosing and treating patients with heart disease, but the rising use
of the tests has led to increasing radiation exposure over the past two decades,» said Reza Fazel, M.D., M.Sc., chair
of the writing committee for the statement and cardiologist at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
«The public and regulatory agencies are saying we have to be much more transparent about any relationships faculty have with industry,» said Dr. Richard Schwartzstein, a member
of the review committee and a pulmonologist at Beth Israel
Deaconess.