Index:Women Priests in the Catholic Church?

Women Priests in the Catholic Church?

A Theological-Historical Investigation

by Haye van der Meer, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1973.
Republished on our website with the necessary permissions

First published as Priestertum der Frau? © 1969 by Verlag Herder, K. G., Freiburg im Breisgau
Translated and with a Foreword and Afterword by Arlene and Leonard Swidler

Foreward by Cynthia C.Wedel		vii
Translators’ Foreward		ix
	Preface	3
I.	Introduction	5
II.	Holy Scripture	10
	1. Jesus and the Apostles Chose Only Men	10
	2. The Texts from 1 Cor. 11	15
	3. The Texts from 1 Cor. 14	20
	4. The Texts from 1 Tim. 2	23
	5. Divine Law or Church Law in Scripture?	26
	6. Quaedam capitula	32
	7. The Same Subject?	34
	8. The Subjection of Woman	36
	9. Surmounted and Canonized Rabbinism	39
III.	The Church Fathers	46
	1. The Decisive Texts	47
	2. No Accord on Woman	59
	3. The Other Subject of the Patristic Statements	68
	4. The Fathers Themselves Progress Beyond Their Own Principles	72
	5. Slaves	81
	6. Afterword on Deaconesses	86
IV.	The Teaching Office of the Church	90
	Evaluation of the Texts	99
V.	Theological Speculation (Ratio Theologica)	106
	1. The Power of Jurisdiction	106
	-a. The Secular Jurisdiction of Women	112
	-b. Have There Been Women with Spiritual Jurisdiction?	115
	2. The Bridegroom	128
	3. The Begetter of the Life of Grace	143
	4. Mary Was Not a Priest	151
	5. The Situation of the Primitive Church	154
VI.	Postscript	157
Translators’ Afterword		163
Notes		169
Index		195

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