Women in Pastoral Office
Subtitle: The Story of Santa Prassede, Rome
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780199977628
Subjects: Women clergy; Rome (italy), churches; Liturgics; Rome (italy), history
Description: Mary M. Schaefer examines the ninth-century church Santa Prassede and its foundation myth, as well as an ideal of balanced male-female relationships and women holding pastoral office in the church of Rome.