Women of Spirit: Female Leadership in the Jewish and Christian Traditions, Volume 10Rosemary Radford Ruether, Eleanor McLaughlin The possibility that women can play important roles in the institutional and ordained leadership of Western religion is today becoming a reality. In Women of Spirt, a book called "excellent" and "informative" by Doris Grumbach in The New York Times Book Review, professional theologians delve to the roots of this new and highly controversial idea of women as religious leaders. |
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