PAUL LADOUCEUR
THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN TO THE PRIESTHOOD: A PASTORAL QUESTION
This is a revised and augmented version of a paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Orthodox Theological Society in America held at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Brookline, MA, USA), on October 18-20, 2018. For a more substantive treatment of the ordination of women, see our review of Lawrence Farley, Feminism and Tradition: Quiet Reflections on Ordination and Communion (Yonkers NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2012), in St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly , 60, 3 (2016), 415-21; and the follow-up article, “Christ, The Fathers and Feminism: Dialogue with Fr Lawrence Farley,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly , 62, 3 (2018), 287-295. See also “The Ordination of Women,” in our forthcoming book, Modern Orthodox Theology: “Behold, I Make All Things New” (London: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2019), 378-404
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