A Theological-Historical Investigation
by Haye van der Meer, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1973.
Republished on our website with the necessary permissions
First published as Priestertum der Frau? © 1969 by Verlag Herder, K. G., Freiburg im Breisgau
Translated and with a Foreword and Afterword by Arlene and Leonard Swidler
| Foreward by Cynthia C.Wedel | vii | |
| Translators’ Foreward | ix | |
| Preface | 3 | |
| I. | Introduction | 5 |
| II. | Holy Scripture | 10 |
| 1. Jesus and the Apostles Chose Only Men | 10 | |
| 2. The Texts from 1 Cor. 11 | 15 | |
| 3. The Texts from 1 Cor. 14 | 20 | |
| 4. The Texts from 1 Tim. 2 | 23 | |
| 5. Divine Law or Church Law in Scripture? | 26 | |
| 6. Quaedam capitula | 32 | |
| 7. The Same Subject? | 34 | |
| 8. The Subjection of Woman | 36 | |
| 9. Surmounted and Canonized Rabbinism | 39 | |
| III. | The Church Fathers | 46 |
| 1. The Decisive Texts | 47 | |
| 2. No Accord on Woman | 59 | |
| 3. The Other Subject of the Patristic Statements | 68 | |
| 4. The Fathers Themselves Progress Beyond Their Own Principles | 72 | |
| 5. Slaves | 81 | |
| 6. Afterword on Deaconesses | 86 | |
| IV. | The Teaching Office of the Church | 90 |
| Evaluation of the Texts | 99 | |
| V. | Theological Speculation (Ratio Theologica) | 106 |
| 1. The Power of Jurisdiction | 106 | |
| -a. The Secular Jurisdiction of Women | 112 | |
| -b. Have There Been Women with Spiritual Jurisdiction? | 115 | |
| 2. The Bridegroom | 128 | |
| 3. The Begetter of the Life of Grace | 143 | |
| 4. Mary Was Not a Priest | 151 | |
| 5. The Situation of the Primitive Church | 154 | |
| VI. | Postscript | 157 |
| Translators’ Afterword | 163 | |
| Notes | 169 | |
| Index | 195 | |
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