A Critique of Arguments against the Ordination of Women to Priesthood with Special Emphasis on the Argument from Jesus’ Maleness
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Milltown Studies. 2000, 46, 33-57.Abstract
The question of the ordination of women to priesthood is one that has interested me personally for some years. At some stage I came across the document Inter insigniores from the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF), published 19761 . What I read there annoyed me, and especially a certain passage, quoted below, made me both furious and deeply hurt. The task of this article is to give a critique of the argument set out in that passage, namely the argument from Jesus’ maleness against the ordination of women. This involves exploring some of the consequences the argument has, touching on christology, anthropology, soteriology and trinitarian theology.
Other arguments against the ordination of women will be discussed briefly.
The article builds on an essay I wrote during Spring 2000 as part of the continual assessment of
the B.D. programme.