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by: Karen J. Torjesen See Larger Image List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $2.34 Third Party New Price: $8.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 200 EAN: 9780060686611 ISBN: 0060686618 Label: HarperOne Manufacturer: HarperOne Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 15, 1995 Publisher: HarperOne Release Date: April 15, 1995 Sales Rank: 384552 Studio: HarperOne Related Items: What Paul Really Said About Women: The Apostle's Liberating Views on Equality in Marriage, Leadership, and Love Women and Christianity: The First Thousand Years (Women and Christianity) Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History Women in the Church: A Biblical Theology of Women in Ministry The Hidden History of Women's Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West see more Editorial Review: Product Description: This landmark book reveals not only that women were priests, bishops, and prophets in early Christianity, but also how and why they were then suppressed. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - This book recovers the truth in spite of sexist social norms Contrary to what another reviewer has said, women were leaders in the early church. Stating this fact is not a revision to be in line with social norms, in fact, it flies in the face of what most mainline Christians seem to want to believe. The reason he has never read about some "movement" in the early church to have women leaders is that no movement was necessary, since women were leaders from the beginning of Christianity until the religion was changed to fit Roman norms. This book only suggests ... Read More Rating: - Reclaiming the past Karen Jo Torjesen's book, 'When Women Were Priests' examines the subject of women in the early Christian movement, and particularly the role of women in the leadership positions in the church. Torjesen, a leading expert on women in ancient Christianity, is on faculty at Claremont Graduate School. As women have attained rights to ordination in various denominations (Anglican, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist) and even other religions (the first woman to be ordained a rabbi in the ... Read More Rating: - Revising the truth to fit societal norms This book infers that there was a time in the history of the church when women were accepted or on their way to being accepted as leaders in the Christian church. The author claims this phenomenon was suppressed around the time the church became the official religion of the Roman Empire (became widely accepted and institutionalized). I have a few major objections to this approach and these conclusions, if you will indulge me. 1. The authors put a lot of emphasis on the non-New Testament history ... Read More Rating: - Insightful reading I must admit that I expected this to be an exhaustive work providing evidence for when women were priests, as the title suggests. However, while the subject is certainly touched upon, the book focuses much more on the socio-political environment of the developing Christian movement, including the Jesus movement, in relation to women, and how this environment shaped Christianity's general beliefs about women's roles. While I would have liked to see the title developed more throughout the book, it is still certainly ... Read More Rating: - When Women Were Priests Falls Short of Being a Great Book When reading a book about a controversial topic, one expects to find an assortment of outcomes: excitement for the intellect, challenges against tradition, and/or offensive ideas. The anticipation for effects such as these inspires one to take the time to read a book about said controversy. An accomplished book presents a good argument for a side, or perhaps several sides, of an issue through quality organization, respect for the reader's intelligence, and thorough explanations of conclusions made. Accord with ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Women's Studies - Nonfiction - Subjects - Books - General Women's Studies - Nonfiction - Subjects - Books - General AAS Christian Living - Christianity - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - Leadership Church History - Christianity - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - Early Church Church History - Christianity - Religion & Spirituality - Subjects - Books - General