When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity - Hardcover

Toriesen, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060682973 ISBN 13: 9780060682972

Publisher: HarperCollins,Australia, 1993

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

A powerful work of synthesis. Torjesen is nothing short of brilliant in tracing the connection between the church's move from private to public spheres and the corresponding move to suppress women's leadership. The cumulative effect of the book's argument is to make more rationally urgent than ever the removal of this scandal. --Elizabeth A. Johnson, author of She Who Is

Absolutely first rate! --Jouette M. Bassler, associate editor, The HarperCollins Study Bible

Brilliantly lays bare the historic roots of the church's prejudice against women. A powerful, revealing, insightful book. --RT. REV. John S. Spong, Bishop of Newark

About the Author:

Karen Jo Torjesen, Ph.D., is the Margo L. Goldsmith Chair of Women's Studies and Religion at Claremont Graduate School in California, and an associate of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. She is widely regarded as a leading authority on women in ancient Christianity.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins,Australia
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0060682973
• ISBN 13: 9780060682972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240