Important Books on Line

In this section we present 38 complete books online!
They contain contributions by more than 100 theologians!
See also our collection of Ancient Classics (Middle Ages – 1930).


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2008Sean Fagan What Happened to Sin?
2007Michael AzkoulOrder of Creation/Order of Redemption, The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church
1999Patricia Marlette BlackDoctoral Thesis ‘The New is Elsewhere’: Women’s Leadership in Community-Profit Organisations,
1997Paul Collins‘Papal Power’
1995Report of an Ad Hoc Committee of the Canon Law Society of AmericaThe Canonical Implications of Ordaining Women to the Permanent Diaconate
1991Edited by Marie-Eloise RosenblattWhere can we find her? Searching for women’s identity in the new church
1990Janet Martin SoskiceAfter Eve
1989Ursula KingWomen and Spirituality
1987Ladislas ÖrsyThe Church: Learning and Teaching
1985Susan Marie PraederThe Word in Women’s Worlds: Four Parables
1985Elspeth and Gordon Strachan Freeing the Feminine
1982Jean LaPorteThe Role of Women in Early Christianity
1985Letty RussellFeminist Interpretation of the Bible,
1985Elizabeth StorkeyWhat is Right with Feminism, Ch. 6. Women and the church,
Ch.10. Polarisation : Christianity against Feminism,
1980Elisabeth M. TetlowWomen and Ministry in the New Testament
1979Louis BouyerWoman in the Church
1978Hugh Montefiori (ed.)Yes to Women Priests,
1978Carroll Stuhlmueller (ed.)Women and Priesthood: Future Directions
1978Peter Moore (ed.)Man, Woman, and Priesthood
1978Proceedings of the Second Conference
on the Ordination of Roman Catholic Women
New Woman, New Church, New Ministry
1977
(and 1986)
John WijngaardsDid Christ Rule Out Women Priests?
1977Leonard Swidler & Arlene Swidler (eds.)Women Priests: A Catholic Commentary on the Vatican Declaration
1977John H.OtwellAnd Sarah Laughed
1977James Coriden (ed.)Sexism and Church Law: Equal Rights and Affirmative Action
1976Marianne H. Micks & Charles R. Price (eds.)Toward a New Theology of Ordination: Essays on the Ordination of Women
1975Harold Wilson (ed.)Women Priests? Yes – Now!
1975Michael P.Hamilton and Nancy S.Montgomery (eds)The Ordination of Women: Pro and Con
1975Paul LakelandCan Women be Priests?
1975Robert E. Terwilliger and Urban T. Holmes(eds.)To be a Priest
1974Robert J. Heyer (eds.)Women and Orders
1973George H.TavardWoman in Christian Tradition
1973Haye van der MeerWomen Priests in the Catholic Church?, 1973.
Original German: Priestertum der Frau. 1969.
1973Joan MorrisAgainst Nature and God, Ch.1,2,3,4 and Bibliography
1972National Assembly of Women ReligiousWomen in Ministry: A Sisters’ View
1972Arlene SwidlerWoman in a Man’s Church
1967Vincent Emmanuel HannonThe Question of Women and the Priesthood
1964Ed. Dr. Gertrud Heinzelmann, women speak out to Vatican Council IIWe Won’t Keep Silence Any Longer! (German and English texts)
1962J P. MackeyThe Modern Theology of Tradition, Ch. 3&4. A comprehensive survey of theological views on the ‘Sensus fidelium‘ and Tradition.
1951Gerh. Huls The Ministry of Women in the Church, English summary of Dutch book(see below)

Books in other languages

  1. Des femmes aussi suivaient Jésus. Essai d’interprétation de quelques versets des évangiles, par Suzanne Tunc, Descleé de Brouwer 1998.
  2. Mujeres Sacerdotes ¿Por qué No…?, por Mª José Arana y María Salas, Publicaciones Claretianas, Madrid 1994.
  3. Cristo ha Escluso le Donne dal Sacerdozio?, John Wijngaards, Great Wakering 1977.
  4. De Vrouw in de Kerk, door Dr. Gerh. Huls, publ. Bosch & Keuning N.V., 1965
  5. De Dienst der Vrouw in de Kerk, Gerh. Huls, H.Veenman & Zonen, Wageningen, 1951.

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