Pro and Con
on the Ordination
of Women
Report and Papers from The United States
Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation, Cincinnati, June 1975.
Contents
| I. | The Issues in the Ordination
Debate: A Two-Stage Process of Discussion |
Arthur Vogel | 1 |
| II. | The ARC XVI Statement | 12 | |
| III. | Ordination to Serve and to Represent Roman Catholic Explorations; The Canterbury Statement; Some Conclusions | J.M.Donahue O.P. | 20 |
| IV. | Responsible Use of the Scriptures | Schuyler Brown S.J. and Richard W.Corney | 39 |
| V. | New Testament Considerations | Reginald H.Fuller | 57 |
| VI. | Christian Women in Ecclesial Ministry: the First Six Hundred Years | Agnes Cunningham | 63 |
| VII. | Priesthood and the “Maleness” of Christ; Trinity and Christology in the Fathers | Richard A.Norris, Jr. | 69 |
| VIII. | Patriarchal Culture in the Bible and History | Howard Rhys | 81 |
| IX. | Ordination of Women; The Cultural Context | Letitia Brennan | 89 |
| X. | Women in the Order of Nature and in “The Church Today” | Peter Day | 99 |
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