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The Fortieth Anniversary of Women's Ordination in the Lutheran Church
Author(s) -
Anderson Mary W.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6385.2010.00564.x
Subject(s) - ordination , christian ministry , perspective (graphical) , sociology , gender studies , political science , religious studies , art , philosophy , law , visual arts , computer science , machine learning
: This article offers a perspective on the present and future roles of women in the ELCA. It gives some analysis of women's roles in the trend of declining traditional congregations and rising megachurches while imagining the role of clergywomen in the church's next forty years as new models of ministry emerge.