History of Women and Ordination The Priestly Office of Women God's Gift to a Renewed Church

The Priestly Office of Women: God's gift to a Renewed Church is the English translation of the second edition of Dr. Ida Raming's classic study of the exclusion of women from ordination in the Western Christian Church, The Exclusion of Women from the Priesthood: Divine Law or Sex Discrimination? (SCP, 1976). This new edition includes a bibliography on women's ordination from 1973 to the present plus three recent essays by Dr. Raming and a complete translation of the Latin sources cited by Dr. Raming.Raming, Ida is the author of 'History of Women and Ordination The Priestly Office of Women God's Gift to a Renewed Church', published 2004 under ISBN 9780810848504 and ISBN 0810848503.