Women in Ministry Emerging Questions about the Diaconate

Phyllis Zagano

9781921946189

1/05/2012

This book makes an important contribution to the international conversation on the place of women in ministry. The essays are both readable and infused with research on the restoration of ordained women deacons. Dr Zagano has clearly scoped a legitimate area of discussion and is providing invaluable assistance to the Church moving forward to a renewed future. In this book she examines early ecclesiastical practices, cites current realities within churches in communion with Rome, and articulates implications for participation in church governance as she carefully and cogently invites readers to consider the ordination of women as deacons – a blessed and sacred form of ministry – within the Roman Catholic Church. Readers are left with only one question: Why not?