The beginning of women's ministry : the revival of the deaconess in the nineteenth-century Church of England
"Bringing together documents from a variety of unpublished archives, this edited collection introduces the reader to a neglected aspect of women's involvement in official Church ministry. It provides a coherent illustration of the circumstances which fostered the revival of an ancient order of ministry for women and some of the individuals who were involved in the early years. Socially divisive, theologically controversial, the claims of women to be part of an order analogous to that of the male diaconate formed the basis of women's claims to active participation in the ecclesiastical hierarchy right up to the present day."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2007
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK, 2007