The service and status of women in the churches
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- Author
- Bliss, Kathleen, 1908-1989
- Publication Date
- 1952
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BV 4415 B58 1952
- Author
- Bliss, Kathleen, 1908-1989
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- SCM Press
- Publication Date
- 1952
- Physical Description
- 208 p. ; 22.2 x 14.5 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "By Kathleen Bliss".
- "One of the 'Concerns of the Church' which was discussed at the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam in 1948 was 'the Life and Work of Women in the Church'. .... The amount of material which came from the different Churches was so considerable that it was impossible to produce more than a very provisional and short report for the Assembly itself, and it was therefore decided that a fuller report should be prepared. But there are reports and reports. The 'Commission on Life and Work of Women in the Church' which had been set up by the World Council after the Assembly considered that what was wanted was not a mere tabulation of the various national documents, but rather a personal interpretation of the situation as it was revealed in the material. It therefore asked Dr. Kathleen Bliss to present the facts together with her own evaluation of these facts. The result is this highly illuminating survey of the place and work of women in many Churches which may claim to represent the first world-wide study on this subject which has ever been made". -- Foreword.
- Contents: Foreword / W.A. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches -- Preface dated November 1951 / K. Bliss -- Women, Church and Society -- The Voluntary Service of Women in the Church -- Full-Time and Professional Service of Women in the Church -- Women and the Ordained Ministry -- The Participation of Women in the Government of the Church -- Change and Opportunity -- Index.
- Colophon: Printed and bound in Great Britain by Tonbridge Printers, Peach Hall Works, Tonbridge, Kent.
- Added Entry
- Life and Work of Women in the Church
- Subjects
- Women - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Women in Christianity
- Women church workers
- Women in church work
- Deaconesses
- Ordination of women - History
- Church polity
- Leadership - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Call Number
- BV 4415 B58 1952
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)