Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Orthodox Church, Women's Movements and Ecumenical Relationships -- A tradition of veneration, piety and sanctity -- Women, Church and state - the feminist movement -- Orthodox women and the ecumenical movement -- 2 Women, Ecumenism and the Bounds in which They May Work -- Orthodox women and ecumenical service -- Sexism, society and the churches -- 3 Women Are Not Subordinate, But They Are Different -- The ordination of women - the early debates -- Agapia Consultation 1976 -- Diakonia - service or ministry -- 4 Ignored by Those Who Approved the Priorities -- The community of women and men in the Church -- Women in the diaspora -- The Sheffield Consultation and Dresden 1981 -- Prague Consultation 1985 and the aftermath -- 5 Questions, Consultations and Challenges -- Ordination remains on the ecumenical agenda -- The Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women 1988-98 -- Rhodes Consultation 1988 - The place of the woman -- Cairo 1989 - tentative questions for the future -- 6 Church and Culture: Human Sexuality, Ministry and Participation -- Crete Consultation 1990 - Church and Culture -- Human sexuality and the acceptance of 'double standards' -- Ministry and the royal priesthood -- Inclusive language and the 'gender' of God -- Ecumenical Institute at Bossey - feminine images and spirituality -- 7 Militant Conservatism and a Movement of Orthodox Women -- WCC Seventh Assembly, Canberra 1991 - 'At such a time as this' -- Ethnicity and Orthodoxy -- 'Living Letters' - the Decade response from the Orthodox churches -- Damascus and Istanbul Consultations 1996 and 1997 -- Orthodox women doing it for themselves -- Appendix -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

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