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| Research Texts by Scholars | Academic position | ||
| 2015 | Ida Raming | Mary – Prophet and Priest. A forgotten, suppressed truth. Could she open the door to women’s ordination? | Theologian |
| 2015 | Ida Raming | The far too long story of discrimination against women because of their sex | Theologian |
| 2015 | NCR Staff | Early Women Leaders: from Heads of House Churches to Presbyters | NCR Staff in consultation with Scholars |
| 2008 | John Wijngaards | Women Bishops? Views in the Roman Catholic Church, Official and Otherwise Women as Bishops, 2008, pp. 31-42 | Full background info here. |
| 2007 | John Wijngaards | Women leaders and the Catholic Church? Catholics for a changing Church London 2007 | Full background info here. |
| 2007 | Aaron Milavec | Priesthood and Jesus’ Jewish inspiration (some extracts from “Salvation Is from the Jews” (John 4:22): Saving Grace in Judaism and Messianic Hope in Christianity, Liturgical Press, July 2007. | Emeritus Professor of Theology |
| 2006 | John Wijngaards | Church without Women Leaders. Will women ever govern the Roman Catholic Church?, The Geneva Post Quarterly, November 2006, | Full background info here. |
| 2004 | Michelle A.Gonzalez | Hans urs von Balthazar and Contempory Feminist Theology Theological Studies, 65 (2004) Vol.65, no.3, Sept.2004 | Ph.D. in systematic and philosophical theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. Assistant professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. |
| 2003 | Cherie Booth | A Catholic Perspective on Human Rights, The Tablet, 21st June 2003, pp. 4-7. | Crown Court Judge, wife of UK prime minister Tony Blair |
| 2002 | Richard R. Gaillardetz | The Ordinary Magisterium: Unresolved Questions, Theological Studies 63 (2002) pp. 447-471. | University of St. Thomas School of Theology |
| 2002 | Richard R. Gaillardetz | ‘The Reception of Doctrine: New Perspectives’, in Authority in the Roman Catholic Church, Ashgate, 2002, pp. 95-114. | University of St. Thomas School of Theology |
| 2002 | Mary Grey | The Ordination of Women – Seeking a New Approach, AGM, Catholic Women’s Ordination, May 2002 | Theology/ Nijmegen University/ University of Southampton |
| 2002 | Ruth Hoppin | The Book of the Hebrews Revisited: Implications of the Theology of Hebrews for Gender Equality Pacific Coast Region/Society of Biblical Literature meeting, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA | Free-lance writer and independent researcher in New Testament studies |
| 2002 | Damien Casey | ‘The Fractio Panis and the Eucharist as Eschatological banquet’, Mcauley Electronic Journal 2 (2002). | Theology Department, Mcauley University Australia |
| 2002 | Klaus Lüdicke | ‘Protection by Virtue of the Law?’, Orientierung 66 (2002) pp. 178 – 181, 15 Sept 2002 | Professor in Church Law, Münster, Germany |
| 2002 | Roy P. Fisher | Sexuality, Gender and Christian Identity in the Fourth and Early fifth Centuries, Dissertation, 2002 | Independent researcher |
| 2001 | René van Eyden | The Creation of Womanhood: A Hierarchical Construction, Olhares feministas sobre a Igreja Católica, cadernos no 9, Publicações CDD, São Paulo 2001. | Professor emeritus University of Utrecht, the Netherlands |
| 2001 | Reimund Bieringer | The Scriptural Argument in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, Bijdragen 62 (2001) 129-142 | New Testament Professor, Louvain, Belgium |
| 2001 | Marie Louise Uhr | ‘Women’s Ordination: Barriers and Boundaries’, WomenChurch 28 (2001) pp. 11-16. | Biochemist and Theologian. Founder of ‘Ordination of Catholic Women‘ in Australia. |
| 2001 | Aruna Gnanadason | ‘We will pour our ointment on the feet of the church’, Women’s Ordination Conference, Dublin 2001. | Theologian, World Council of Churches, Geneva |
| 2001 | John Collins | ‘Contextualising Dorothea Reininger’s Women Deacons’, for Women’s Ordination. Catholic Internet Library. This is an excellent introduction to the complex issues surrounding the future diaconate of women. | Scriptural theologian (Diakonia, Reinterpreting the ancient Sources (1990) and Are all Christians Ministers? (1992) |
| 2000 | Gary Macy | ‘The Ordination of Women in the Early Middle Ages’, Theological Studies 61 (2000) pp 481 -507. | Theologian, University of St. Diego |
| 2000 | John Wijngaards | ‘Christian Autonomy and the Church’, Theological Conference, Newman College, Birmingham, 24 June 2000. | Theologian, author |
| 2000 | Elizabeth Price | ‘Seeing Sin where None Is’, Catholics for a Changing Church, New Blackfriars 2000. Polish Translation. | Theologian, researcher |
| 2000 | Peter Morea | Catholic Patriarchy from Towards a Liberal Catholicism. Psychology and Four Women SCM Press. 2000, pp.96-110. | Pschologist. Formerly a lecturer at Middlesex University |
| 2000 | Roy P. Fisher | Sexuality, Gender and Christian Identity in the Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries, Uuiversity of Wales, Cardiff. M. Th. 30.9.2000. | |
| 1999 | Angela Berlis | ‘The Ordination of Women: A Test Case for Conciliarity’, Concilium 1999, pp. 77-84. | Theologian, Professor Nijmegen University |
| 1999 | Joseph Ratzinger | ‘Infallibility Explored’, Céide May/June 1999, vol 2 no 5, pp. 28-29. | Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine in Rome. |
| 1999 | Ladislas Orsy | ‘Infallibility Explored’ – the Professor replies, Céide May/June 1999, vol 2 no 5, pp. 30-34. | Professor of Law at Georgetown University, Washington. |
| 1999 | Report on the Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia prepared by the Research Management Group. | Woman and Man: One in Christ Jesus. Harper Collins Religious, Australia 1999. | A Research Project undertaken for the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference by the Bishops’ Committee for Justice, Development and Peace, Australian Catholic University and the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutions. |
| 1999 | Tina Beattie | ‘The Female Body and the Sacramental Priesthood in neo-orthodox Catholic Theology’ in God’s Mother, Eve’s Advocate, University of Bristol 1999, pp. 56 – 66. | University of Bristol, UK |
| 1999 | Ida Raming | ‘Male discourse about God in the liturgy and its effects on women’ , Lumen Vitae, Revue Internationale de Catéchèse et de Pastorale 55 (1999) pp. 47 – 57. French: ‘Le discours masculin sur Dieu dans la liturgie et ses effets sur les femmes’.. | Doctor in theology, author of many books, including the classic On the exclusion of women from the ministry in the Church (1970). |
| 1999 | Hermann Josef Pottmeyer | Refining the Question about Women’s Ordination, from https://www.religion-online.org/theology/pottmeyer_refining.htm (1999) | Theologian, Bochem University, Germany |
| 1998 | Suzanne Tunc | ‘Meals of the Community’, from Des Femmes aussi Suivant Jésus, Paris 1998, pp 69-77. | Author |
| 1998 | eds. Ann Bedeleem and Ilse van Halst | ‘Who may dwell within your Tent?’, The Commission on Women and the Church of the Belgian Bishops’ Conference, Louvain 1998, pp.55-67 | |
| 1998 | Umberto Eco | ‘The exclusion of women from the priesthood according to Thomas Aquinas’, from Croire en Quoi?, Rivages Poche/Petite bibliothèque, 1998. | Theologian and author. |
| 1998 | Tina Beattie | ‘A Man and Three Women. Hans, Adrienne, Mary and Luce’, New Blackfriars, vol.79 (February 1998), no.924, pp. 97-105. | University of Bristol, UK |
| 1998 | Marie-Thérèse Van Lunen Chenu | “Human rights in the Church: a non-right for women in the Church?” in Human Rights. The Christian contribution, July 1998. | Lawyer and Journalist. |
| 1998 | John Wijngaards | ‘God and our new Selves’ , paper presented at a consultation convoked by the Council of European Bishops Conferences, Vienna 1998. Religioni e Sette del Mondo 4 (1998) pp. 172 – 193. | Missionary Institute, London, UK; affil. Louvain University, Belgium. |
| 1998 | Marie Louise Uhr | ‘Obedience a Questionable Virtue’, St Mark’s Review, 173, pp 3-9, 1998. | Biochemist and Theologian. Canberra University, Australia |
| 1998 | Nelson H Minnich | The voice of theologians in general councils from Pisa to Trent, Theological Studies 1998, vol. 59 no3 p. 420-41. | Professor of Renaissance and Reformation history, Catholic University of America, Washington |
| 1997 | John H. Wright | ‘Patristic Testimony on Women’s 0rdination in INTER INSIGNIORES’, Theological Studies 58 (1997) 516-526. | Gregorian University, Rome; Berkeley University, USA |
| 1997 | Elizabeth A. Johnson | ‘Basic Linguistic Options: God, Women, Equivalence’, from She Who Is. The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse, Crossroad, 1997, pp.42-57. | Fordham University, USA |
| 1997 | Kim E. Power | “Of godly men and medicine: ancient biology and the Christian Fathers on the nature of woman”. Keynote paper at the “Ordination of Catholic Women” Conference, Melbourne 1997; published in Women-church. | La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia |
| 1997 | Tina Beattie | A discipleship of love : Mary of Bethany and the ministry of women by Tina Beattie, published in The Month, May 1997, pp171-175. | University of Bristol, UK |
| 1997 | Dorothea McEwan | “The Ordination Of Women – A Living Tradition” , Pogranicza Wrazliwosci w Literaturze i Kulturze Dawnej Oraz Wspolczesnie-Konfrontacje, Szczecin, 2-4 June 1997, Poland. Polish translation by Piotr Urbanski (seen best with Internet Explorer). | Librarian and Research Scholar at Warburg Institute, London |
| 1997 | Annie Lally Milhaven | The Inferior Mix. The Real Reasons Why the Catholic Church Does Not Ordain Women, Conscience, 18 (1997) no 3, pp.12-14. | Writer, lecturer, and adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island |
| 1997 | Ann Mary Clement | ‘Women Disciples’, Focus 17 (1997), pp. 255-260 | Teaches Scripture Pastoral Institute, Multan, Pakistan |
| 1996 | Carlos Bravo | Jesus of Nazareth, Christ the Liberator Chapter 6 from Systematic Theology – Perspectives from Liberation Theology by Carlos Bravo and edited by Jon Sobrino, S.J. and Ignacio Ellacuria, S.J. SCM Press Ltd 1996 pp. 106-123 | |
| 1996 | Jon Sobrino | Systematic Christology: Jesus Christ, the Absolute Mediator of the Reign of God Chapter 7 from Systematic Theology – Perspectives from Liberation Theology by Jon Sobrino and edited by Jon Sobrino, S.J. and Ignacio Ellacuria, S.J. SCM Press Ltd 1996 pg 124-145 | Father Jon Sobrino, is a prominent Roman Catholic teacher and proponent of liberation theology who teaches at the University of Central America in San Salvador |
| 1996 | Ignacio Ellacuría | The Crucified People, Chapter 15 from Systematic Theology – Perspectives from Liberation Theology | Jesuit philosopher and theologian who teaches at the University of Central America in San Salvador |
| 1996 | Klaus Nientiedt | ‘How Binding? “Ordinatio sacerdotalis” unleashes debate on the Magisterium’, Herder Korrespondenz 9 (1996) pp. 461-466. | Journalist and Theologian |
| 1996 | Constantinos Yokarinis | ‘Patristic elements towards a theological anthropology of woman as a human being and as woman in her difference from man’, , lecture in Warsaw 1996. | Orthodox Theologian, Greece |
| 1996 | Tina Beattie | ‘Mary, the Virgin Priest?’ , The Month 257 (December 1996) pp. 485 – 493. | University of Bristol, UK |
| 1996 | Joseph Dunn | ‘Secret Priests’ (about the Czech women priests), from No vipers in the Vatican, Columba Press pp. pp. 235-251. | Journalist |
| 1996 | Joseph Dunn | ‘A Council in the likeness of Pope John’, from No vipers in the Vatican, Columba Press pp. pp. 133-142. | Journalist |
| 1995 | Hans Küng | ‘Women’s Ordination and Infallibility’, The Tablet 16 December 1995, pp. 1618-1620. | Theologian, Tübingen University |
| 1995 | John E Thiel | ‘Tradition and reasoning: a nonfoundationalist perspective’ , Theological Studies 56 (Dec. ’95), pp. 627-51. | . |
| 1995 | Ida Raming | ‘Ignored opportunities for women in canon law’, from Theology Digest 42:3 (Fall, 1995) pp. 235-238 | Doctor in theology, author of many books. |
| 1995 | Kim E.Power | “The Rehabilitation of Eve in the De institutione uirginis of Ambrose of Milan” , in Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches, ed. M. Dillon, Amsterdam. Hakkert, pp. 367-382. | La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia |
| 1995 | Caroline Vander Stichele | Is Silence Golden? Paul and Women’s Speech in Corinth , in Louvain Studies, vol.20 (1995) pp.241-253. | Catholic University of Tilburg, The Netherlands |
| 1994 | Anne Jensen | “Is the ordination of women an ecumenical problem?” , Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift 84 (1994) vol.4, pp. 210 – 228. | University of Graz, Austria |
| 1993 | Anne Baring and Jules Cashford | Eve: the Mother of All Living and ‘Eve in Christian Culture’ from from The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image (Penguin Books, 1991) pp. 486-546. | Lecturers and authors |
| 1993 | Mary Ann Rossi | “The Legitimation of the Abuse of Women in Christianity” , Feminist Theology 4 (1993) pp. 57 – 63. | Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women, Wisconsin |
| 1993 | Anne Jensen | ‘Prisca—Maximilla—Montanus: who was the founder of ‘Montanism’?’, Studia Patristica 26 (1993) pp. 147-150 | University of Graz, Austria |
| 1993 | Anne Jensen | “The Representation of Christ, Ecclesiastical Office, and Presiding at the Eucharist ” , Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 40 (1993) pp. 282-297. | University of Graz, Austria |
| 1993 | Nancy Tuana | “The Less Noble Sex. Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman’s Nature ” , Preface only, Indiana University Press | Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University and founding director of Rock Ethics Institute |
| 1993 | Jeanne Pieper | ‘The Forbidden Subject: The Ordination of Women’ and ‘New Roles for Women in the Institutional Church’ from The Catholic Woman, Los Angeles 1993. | Journalist, author and scriptwriter |
| 1993 | Joanna Schiessl | ‘Priesthood for Women’ Published in Stimmen der Zeit 118 (1993) no 2; translated by Mary Dittrich | Unknown |
| 1992 | Kari Elisabeth Børresen | The Ordination of Women: To Nurture Tradition by Continuing Inculturation, Studia Theologica 46 (1992) pp. 3-13. | University of Oslo, Sweden |
| 1992 | Susan Rakoczy IHM | Subjects or Objects? Women within Catholic Social Teaching, Studia Theologica 46 (1992) pp. 3-13. | Religious Sister |
| 1992 | Ida Raming | “The twelve apostles were men – -” , Orientierung 56 (1992) pp. 143-146. | Doctor in theology, author of On the exclusion of women from the ministry in the Church (1970); etc. |
| 1991 | Gertrud Jaron Lewis | ‘God and the Human Being in the Writings of Gertrud of Helfta’, Vox Benedictina 8/2 (Winter 1991), 297–322. | Research scholar on medieval women mystics |
| 1991 | Megan Walker | ‘Women in the Church’, Catholic Theological Society of South Africa, October 1991. | Theologian, South Africa |
| 1991 | Giorgio Otranto | “Notes on the Female Priesthood in Antiquity” , Journal of Feminist Studies 7 (1991) no 1, pp. 73 – 94. | University of Bari, Italy |
| 1991 | Giorgio Otranto | ‘The Problem of the Ordination of Women in the Early Christian Priesthood’ , paper of USA lecture tour, 1991. | University of Bari, Italy |
| 1990 | Hervé Legrand | Traditio perpetuo servata? The Non-ordination of Women: Tradition or Simply an Historical Fact? Worship 65 (November, 1991): 482-508. Original published as Rituels: Melanges offerts au Pere Gy O.P. (Paris: Cerf 1990) 393-416. | Theologian, teaching at the Insitut Catholique in Paris. In 1975 appointed by the Vatican, with Eric Doyle OFM to a working party on the Ordination of Women set up by ARCIC |
| 1990 | Uta Ranke-Heinemann | ‘Female Blood: The Ancient Taboo and its Christian Consequences’, from Eunuchs for Heaven, André Deutsch, London 1990, pp. 12-17. | Theologian |
| 1990 | Uta Ranke-Heinemann | ‘Celibatarian Repression of Women’, from Eunuchs for Heaven, André Deutsch, London 1990, pp. 108-117. | Theologian |
| 1990 | Susan Wood | The Sacramentality of Episcopal Consecration, from Theological Studies, 51, no.3, 1990, pp. 479-481. | Theologian, Saint Mary College, Leavenworth, Kan. |
| 1989 | Rosemary Radford Ruether | ‘Christology and Feminism:Can a Male Saviour Save Women?’, from To change the World, New York 1981, pp. 45-56. | Theologian, author, professor at various universities |
| 1989 | Virginia Ramey Mollenkott | ‘The Patriarchal Way of Relating ’, in Women, Men and the Bible, New York 1989. | Theologian and author |
| 1989 | Virginia Ramey Mollenkott | ‘Freedom from Stereotypes’, in Women, Men and the Bible, New York 1989. | Theologian and author |
| 1989 | Mary Grey | ‘Reclaiming women’s part in redeeming’ from Redeeming the Dream. Feminism, Redemption and Christian Tradition, London 1989, pp. 126 – 152. | Nijmegen University, Southampton University, Sarum College |
| 1989 | Jacquelyn Grant | Feminist Christology: The Problem Stated, from White Women’s Christ and Black Women’s Jesus, Feminist Christology and Womanist Response, Chapter II, pp. 63-90. Scholars Press, Atlanta Georgia, 1989. | American Academy of Religion |
| 1988 | Denise Ackermann | Feminist Liberation Theology, from Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 1988, no. 62, pp.14-28 | Department of Practical theology, University of South Africa |
| 1987 | Marie-Henry Keane O.P. | ‘Woman seen as a ‘problem’ and as ‘solution’ in the theological anthropoloqy of the Early Fathers: Considering the Consequences’, Catholic Theological Society of South Africa, October 1987. | Professor Systematic Theology, university of S. Africa, Pretoria |
| 1987 | John Hilary Martin | ‘The Injustice of not Ordaining Women: A Problem for Medieval Theologians’, Theological Studies, 48, (1987) no.2, pp.303-316. | Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA. |
| 1987 | Cora E. Cypser | ‘The Perennial Problem of Sin’, in Taking off the Patriarchal Glasses, Kim Pathways, 1987, pp 97-116. | Scripture scholar and writer |
| 1987 | Barbara Newman | ‘St. Hildegard on the Frail Sex’, in ‘Peace Weavers, Medieval Religious Women’, vol 2 ed JA Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, Cistercian Publications 1987. | Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern. Works on medieval religious culture and women’s spirituality. |
| 1986 | Eric Doyle OFM | The Question of Women Priests and the argument in Persona Christi, from The Catholic Citizen, Winter 1985-1986, No 40. | Theologian and author |
| 1986 | Margaret Wade Labarge | “The Mould for Medieval Women”, from Women in Medieval Life, Hamish Hamilton, 1986, chapter 2. | Historian and author |
| 1985 | Mary Ann Rossi | ‘The Passion of Perpetua, Everywoman of Late Antiquity’, from Pagan and Christian Anxiety , New York 1985, pp. 53-85. | Latinist scholar and writer |
| 1984 | Dennis M. Ferrara | ‘The Ordination of Women: Tradition and Meaning’, Theological Studies, vol.55, no.4, 1984, pp.706-719. | Washington, D.C. |
| 1984 | Eric Doyle OFM | The Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church, in Feminine in the Church, Chapter Two. | Theologian and author |
| 1984 | Elizabeth A. Johnson | ‘The Incomprehensibility of God and the Image of God Male and Female’, Theological Studies, vol.45, no.3, 1984, pp.441-465. | Catholic University of America |
| 1984 | Marie-Thérèse van Lunen Chénu and Louise Wentholt | ‘The Status of Women in the Code of Canon Law and in the United Nations Convention’, Praxis juridique et religion 1 (1984) pp. 7-18. | Both authors are jurists and journalists |
| 1982 | Anne Carr, B.V.M. | Is a Christian Feminist Theology Possible? Theological Studies, Vol. 43, no.2 (1982) pp 279-297. | University of Chicago |
| 1981-1982 | John Mahoney S.J. | The Impact of Humanae Vitae, First published in ‘The Making of Moral Theology, A Study of the Roman Catholic Tradition’ The Martin D’Arcy Memorial Lectures 1981-2 published by the Clarendon Press. Oxford (1989) | |
| 1981 | Ida Raming | ‘Equal but other’ and the ordination of women, from Theology Digest vol. 29:1 (Spring 1981). | Doctor in theology, author of many books. |
| 1975 | George Tavard | Sexist Language in Theology?, Theological Studies, 36 (1975), 700-724. | Theologian and author |
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