In the article, “Should Women Want Women Priests or Women Church?” Ruether outlines the emergence of two movements in Christian community; Women-Church Movement and Roman Catholic Womenpriests Movement. These movements strived to establish women’s ordination and sought to recreate the clerical caste system. Ruether discusses the suppression and marginalization of women in relation to ordained ministry and authoritative priestly roles in Christian tradition. She examines the issues and tensions between women priest and women church, and further underlies whether equal inclusion of women in the clerk or creation of egalitarian grassroots community was the ultimate goal of Christian feminists.
The exclusion of women in ordained ministry in Christian tradition and public leadership in society has been a major issue in history. The Roman Catholic Women Priest Movement attempted to create equality within the Catholic Church. However, women in Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures were seen as subordinate and inferior to men. They were often put in some relationship to men in terms of function or in a supportive role, like for instance a mother, sister or wife. For example, Mary Magdala was viewed as an outcast and prostitute. She was not regarded as a disciple or apostle. The Father of the canonized underestimated her work and …show more content…
In the ‘Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood’, women could not be ordained in priesthood because of their biological composition. Women’s ordination was based on biology and nature of females. This imposed certain restrictions as in what women could do and could not do. For example, women could not represent Christ because they lacked maleness which was intrinsic to the nature of Jesus. Therefore, the Vatican denied the ordination of women due to the biology and nature of
The exclusion of women in ordained ministry in Christian tradition and public leadership in society has been a major issue in history. The Roman Catholic Women Priest Movement attempted to create equality within the Catholic Church. However, women in Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures were seen as subordinate and inferior to men. They were often put in some relationship to men in terms of function or in a supportive role, like for instance a mother, sister or wife. For example, Mary Magdala was viewed as an outcast and prostitute. She was not regarded as a disciple or apostle. The Father of the canonized underestimated her work and …show more content…
In the ‘Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood’, women could not be ordained in priesthood because of their biological composition. Women’s ordination was based on biology and nature of females. This imposed certain restrictions as in what women could do and could not do. For example, women could not represent Christ because they lacked maleness which was intrinsic to the nature of Jesus. Therefore, the Vatican denied the ordination of women due to the biology and nature of