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Why Me, Lord? - One Woman's Ordination to the Priesthood with Commentary and Complaint

English · Hardback

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The story of the ordination of the Reverend Betty Bone Schiess -- one of the first women priests in the Episcopal church.Reverend Betty Bone Schiess' engagingly written memoir is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of religious study as well as to feminist study and to legal scholarship, particularly on equal rights issues. Schiess draws parallels throughout her work to earlier efforts of the suffragettes and abolitionists of Seneca Falls.


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Betty Bone Schiess was a chaplain at Syracuse and Cornell Universities as well as the rector at Grace Episcopal Church in Mexico, New York, from 1984 to 1989.

Summary

The story of the ordination of Reverend Betty Bone Schiess, one of the first women priests in the Episcopal church. Throughout the work, Schiess draws parallels to earlier efforts of the suffragettes and abolitionists of Seneca Falls.

Product details

Authors Betty Bone-Schiess, Betty Bone Schiess
Publisher Syracuse University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.05.2003
 
EAN 9780815607441
ISBN 978-0-8156-0744-1
No. of pages 168
Dimensions 135 mm x 214 mm x 20 mm
Weight 295 g
Series Women and Gender in North Amer
Women and Gender in Religion
Women and Gender in Religion
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

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