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Beyond the Issue of Ordination
Author(s) -
Kroll Una M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
the ecumenical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1758-6623
pISSN - 0013-0796
DOI - 10.1111/j.1758-6623.1988.tb01518.x
Subject(s) - ordination , alienation , power (physics) , passivity , sociology , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy , psychology , political science , law , computer science , physics , electrical engineering , engineering , quantum mechanics , machine learning
The alienation of sacramental life as a power to be used over and against the community is the basis of all false clericalism; such clericalism is deeply rooted in sexist symbols of domination and passivity. Women cannot ask to be ordained without questioning fundamentally this concept of clericalism.