The Disappearing Deaconess
How the Hierarchical Ordering of Church Offices Doomed the Female Diaconate
For all the recent research on deaconesses in the early Church, we still know very little about them, for two reasons: First, their duties were very limited, so there isn't much said about them in ancient texts. Second, their presence was also very limited: There weren't many of them anywhere outside Constantinople. In many places, there weren't any at all, and for a long time, there weren't any anywhere in the Orthodox Church. Why? The Disappearing Deaconess examines not just the evidence of their existence but also patristic teaching on male and female and the evolution of various ministries in the early Church to conclude that the office…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9910169-7-6
- EAN: 9780991016976
- Produktnummer: 36101540
- Verlag: Eremía
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 118 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.0 cm 292 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 292
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Brian Patrick Mitchell, PhD, is a former soldier, journalist, and speechwriter. He is a protodeacon of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and is the author of six books on politics and religion.
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