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(September 2007)
ISBN:
978-1-933275-15-4
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This Overview of
the Canon Law of the Orthodox Catholic Church is a précis
of the lessons on Canon Law taught to undergraduate students
of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
from 1968; and, after the division of the School into two
Departments in 1982, to the undergraduates of the Department
of Pastoral and Social Theology. With the passage of time,
the content of the lessons underwent adaptations and improvements
because of what had in the meantime become His Eminence Panteleimon's
established ecclesiological and canonical views on certain
matters of Canon Law. These changes were small but nonetheless
of the essence. The present edition does not constitute a
complete system of Canon Law, but, as its title declares,
is an overview thereof. |
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(January 2007)
ISBN:
978-1-933275-12-3
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An idea growing
in popularity among some Orthodox over the last few decades
has been the admission of women to the sacerdotal priesthood.
The source for this idea is not the Scriptures, the Fathers,
the Councils of the Church, but comes to us from the world,
specifically the feminist movement. It has implications for
the secularization of the Church. On one level, advocates
view the ordination of women as something owed the female
sex, a sign of the Church's repentance, so to speak, atonement
for the centuries of female stereotyping and powerlessness,
that is to say, denying her the right to creatively express
her ingenuity, to exercise her freedom and to exhibit her
dedication. Not unaware of the objections in holy Tradition
to the ordination of women to the presbytery (and consecration
to the episcopacy), the strategy of its proponents is to declare
this innovation an "open question." It is, in fact,
not a subject to be debated. The theological and ecclesial
facts need only to be reviewed to make the point. This book
provides an understanding of those facts based on the only
authorities (criteria) available to us - the Scriptures, the
Fathers and the Canons. They have unalterably defined the
place of women in the Church from the beginning. |
