The Questions We Left Behind: Reflections from a Teaching Theologian |
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| Authors: | Martha E Stortz |
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| Institution: | After teaching for almost three decades in seminary education, Martha E. Stortz recently accepted an appointment to Augsburg College in Minneapolis as the Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation. She is on the editorial board of Dialog, the on‐line Journal of Lutheran Ethics, and Currents in Theology and Mission. She is author of Blessed to Follow (2008) and A World According to God (2004). |
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| Abstract: | Abstract : While the ordination of women made great strides in ending gender injustice for women in church‐related vocations, women also have raised other questions, specifically: the appropriate role of experience in theological discourse and moral deliberation; the displacement of advocacy by representation; and the tension between the personal and the political. Fore‐mothers leave behind these issues for their after‐daughters, as they meet challenges their fore‐mothers in the faith could hardly imagine. |
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| Keywords: | advocacy quota system clericalism lay and rostered ministry priesthood of all believers |
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