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      Without Precedent

      Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women

      Geoffrey Kirk

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      Without Precedent

      Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women

      Copyright © 2016 Geoffrey Kirk. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      In piam memoriam

      A M F

      Acknowledgements

      Books begin with conversations. I owe a debt of gratitude first to Jenny Standage. The conversations with Jenny—in a curious but rewarding friendship between the National Secretaries of the Movement for the Ordination of Women and of Forward in Faith—have lasted for two decades and are not over. Neither party, I think, would claim to have changed minds in any fundamental way; but despite the surrounding political heat, light has been generated.

      I am also grateful to the clergy and people of the Most Precious Blood, SE1, who have shared parts of what follows and offered me comments and reflections. I especially thank Joanna Bogle and Antonia Lynn.

      It was Dr. Colin Podmore who first encouraged me to write. His generosity with his time and the wisdom of his contributions to the conversation have been an inspiration. He worked tirelessly in helping prepare the text for publication, and rescued me from numerous errors and inaccuracies. Needless to say, the errors that remain are mine alone.

      Introduction

      I had thought to begin this introduction with an apology. Over twenty years on from the first ordinations of women priests in the Church of England, and over half a century since the debate began in earnest, yet another book on the subject might be thought to be trying the public’s patience. But apology, it turns out, would be superfluous: there are so few books.

      Whatever one’s attitude to the result of this process, there can be no doubt that it was both more thorough and more extensive than any undertaken elsewhere in the Anglican Communion. After posing several critical questions about the synodical process, Podmore concludes his overview thus:

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