Why Not?

Why Not?
Priesthood & the Ministery of Women

Preface	6
Feminism and the Church G.E.Duffield	9
The Office of Woman in the Church to the Present Day R.T. Beckwith	26
Heresy, Equalilty and the Rights of Women M. Bruce	40
The Priestess in the Greco-Roman World E.R. Hardy	56
The Office of Woman in the New Testament G. G. Blum	63
Representative Priesthood? J. I. Packer	78
Demythologising the Liberal Illusion H. Cavallin	81
Women and the Priesthood of the Church E. L. Mascall	95
Women and the Threefold Ministry J. J. von Allmen translated by C.D.W.Robinson	121
Towards a Better Solution R. T. Beckwith and G. E. Duffield	132

R. T. BECKWITH Librarian of Latimer House, Oxford. Church of England

G.G. BLUM Lecturer in Early Church Studies, Philipps-Universitat, Marburg. Evangelical Church in Germany

The late MICHAEL BRUCE, for many years Proctor in Canterbury Convocation. EDITOR. Church of England

HANS CAVALLIN Member of the Swedish Brotherhood of the Holy Cross and New Testament specialist. Church of Sweden

G. E. DUFFIELD Editor of News Extra and Member of General Synod. EDITOR Church of England

E.R.HARDY University Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge. Protestant Episcopal Church, USA

E. L. MASCALL Professor of Historical Theology, King's College, London. Church of England

J.I. PACKER Associate Principal, Trinity College, Bristol. Church of England

J. J. VON ALLMEN Professor of Practical Theology, University of Neuchatel. Swiss Reformed Church

C. D. W. ROBINSON St. Edmund Hall, Oxford translated Professor von Allmen's essay.

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