Women Deacons in the Orthodox Church: Called to Holiness and Ministry by Kyriaki Karidoyanes Fitzgerald - 1998-11-03

Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1999. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Holy Cross Pr, November 1998. Paper Back. New. A great deal of careful historical research into patristic, liturgical, and canonical sources has obviously gone into this work, to form a description of the nature of the female diaconate in the early Church. The real question comes down to whether women deacons received an ''ordination'' in the same sense as male deacons, or whether they received a ''blessing'' or ''appointment'' for particular ministry in the Church. FitzGerald argues for the former. In any case, this is a major contribution to the debate, and a strong argument in favor of the ''rejuvenation'' of the order of deaconess in the contemporary Orthodox Church. Appendices include a list of women deacon saints, and the ancient Byzantine ordination rite of the deaconess.

Holy Cross Orthodox Press. paperback. Fitzgerald, Kyriaki Karidoyanes : Women Deacons in the Orthodox Church: Called to Holiness and Ministry. Brookline (MA) : Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1999. Revised edition. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.125"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers (featuring "The first deaconesses" by the hand of Kostas Xenopoulos). Xxviii pp prelim material, 227 numbered pp, plus one blank. Letter to the author from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew; author's preface; prologue (by Evangelos D. Theodorou); nine chaps; appendices (partial list of women deacon saints, Byzantine Ordination Rite of the Deaconess, excerpts from several other relevant historical documents, prayer for the ordination of a deaconess). Condition notes: Excellent, unmarked copy, light wear to wrappers, no crease to spine. Light fold to tail edge. We personally inspect every book we offer.

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