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Lettie Russell’s works include:
- Becoming Human
- Christian Education in Mission
- Feminist Intepretation of the Bible (editor)
- The Future of Partnership
- Growth in Partnership
- Household of Freedom: Authority in Feminist Theology
- Human Liberation in a Feminist Persepctive--a Theology
- Tradition as Mission: Study of a New Current in Theology and its Implications for Theological Education
Dr. Pat Pinsent is Senior Research Fellow, Roehampton University. Curriculum Vitae and academic details here.
Inevitably, since women have not been admitted to the ordained ministry in any Christian church until relatively recently, and are still denied ordination in some bodies, especially the Roman Catholic Church, it is not possible to find literature, for children or for adults, which portrays women in this kind of role.
Nevertheless, if the role of the priest is seen as making Christ present in the world, mediating God to others and 'standing for' Christ, by actions such as nurturing, teaching scripture, tradition and the Christian life, then female characters in literature have undoubtedly had a priestly and ministerial role.
In this course, a wide range of literature, either written for children or often presented to them in school, will be examined, both to examine the portrayal of the role of the ordained male priests and to establish the ways in which female ministry in effect fulfils priestly functions.
A number of questions are inevitably raised during this analysis, in particular in relation to the way in which children's literature helps determine the perceptions of young readers.
The author was dean of studies at St. John's College, Hyderabad, India. Lecturer at the Missionary Institute London (affiliated to Middlesex and Louvain Universities). Curriculum Vitae and academic details here.
In many major Christian Churches, such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, women are still excluded from church leadership. This means that women:
* cannot be deacons, priests, bishops or popes
* cannot run a diocese, preside at the eucharist, forgive sins through confession or the anointing of the sick, impart authoritative teaching on faith or morals, etc.
The traditionalists claim that the exclusion of women from church leadership can be proved from the inspired scriptures. This course aims to show that they are wrong. Sacred Scripture does not ban women from church leadership.
What does it mean to minister today? It means awareness, authenticity, and transfiguration, transfiguration, transfiguration ( Joan Chittester).
Spirituality is …“that which ultimately moves you- the fundamental motivation of your life.
Spirituality is… inclusive and holistic. It crosses frontiers and makes connections. It is characterised by sensitivity, gentleness, depth, openness, flow, feeling, quietness, wonder, paradox, being, waiting, acceptance, awareness, healing and inner journey (Neil Paynter).
Mary Grey has been Professor at Nijmegen, Southampton, Glasgow and Lampeter Universities. Curriculum Vitae and academic details here.
Mary Grey has been Professor at Nijmegen, Southampton, Glasgow and Lampeter Universities. Curriculum Vitae and academic details here.
Her works include:
- Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family
- The Church Against Itself: An Inquiry Into the Historical Conditions for the Existence of the Eschatological Community
- Faith and Fratricide: the Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism
- Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
- Introducing Redemption in Christian Feminism
- Mary, the Feminine Face of the Church
- Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Traditions(editor)
- Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology
- To Change the World: Christology and Cultural Criticism
- Women and Redemption: A Theological History
- Women-Church: Theology and Practice in Feminist Liturgical Communities
The course moves through five modules:
* Christology in contemporary critical perspectives: Europe and North America
* U.S. North American Feminist Perspectives
* Latin American Liberation and Feminist Perspectives
* African Feminist Perspectives
* Feminist Christologies from Asia
The author was dean of studies at St. John's College, Hyderabad, India. Lecturer at the Missionary Institute London (affiliated to Middlesex and Louvain Universities). Curriculum Vitae and academic details here.
The course outlines the main stages of women’s involvement in Christian ministry. It sketches the background and details of the ordination of women deacons. It describes the various social and cultural prejudices that gradually caused the ban on women’s leadership functions, including as priests and bishops, to be enshrined in Church law. The course also provides a professional approach to the rules of assessing what is, and what is not, genuine Christian Tradition.
