When Women Become Priests: The Catholic Women's Ordination DebateSupported by interviews with women in the Episcopal priesthood, this text draws upon object-relations theory, Freudian concepts of the unconscious, and French feminist thought to show how the celebration of mass by women priests would require a rethinking of core dimensions of Catholic theology. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | |
GENDER REVERSAL | 19 |
MATERNAL ENVY | 55 |
SACRIFICE | 105 |
CHRIST AS A WOMAN | 139 |
GENDER SEX AND GOD | 179 |
WHEN WOMEN BECOME PRIESTS | 217 |
APPENDIX | 243 |
NOTES | 245 |
| 285 | |
| 307 | |
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When Women Become Priests: The Catholic Women's Ordination Debate Kelley A. Raab Limited preview - 2000 |
When Women Become Priests: The Catholic Women's Ordination Debate Kelley A. Raab No preview available - 2000 |
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The Church in the Modern Age: The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church Jeremy Morris No preview available - 2007 |