Women, Faith and Fetes
Dove Communications, Melbourne, ISBN O 85924 0665
Women and Their Ministry
Dove Communications, Melbourne, ISBN O 85924 057 6
Women in the Church
‘Women as clergy ... would be comparable to offering a meat pie on the altar of God.’ The Rev. Ian Herring, Victoria, 1971.
That is not the isolated view of a raving misogynist. The 1968 Lambeth Conference heard the now Anglican Primate of Australia, Marcus Loane, say that the admission of women into the priesthood would sound the ‘death knell’ of men’s interest in the Church. Just like a public bar.
And at Lambeth this year, 200 Anglican bishops were billeted 2 km away from their wives, so that they could more easily ‘wait upon God’.
The established Churches, like all our political institutions, have tenaciously guarded their rituals and hierarchies from female intrusion.
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Women, Faith and Fetes
edited by Sabine Willis
Dove Communications, Melbourne, ISBN O 85924 0665
Women and Their Ministry
by Keith Giles
Dove Communications, Melbourne, ISBN O 85924 057 6
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