Pro and Con Book on Ordination of Women to be Published
Diocesan Press Service. August 4, 1975 [75274]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "The Ordination of Women -- Pro and Con," edited by the Rev. Canon Michael P. Hamilton and Nancy S. Montgomery will be published by Morehouse-Barlow Company in early October. Representative contributions from secular, religious and scholarly fields offer theological, historical and personal reasons for and against the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church. These opinions are complemented by an extended chapter by members of other denominations and a history of the progress of ordination in the Anglican Communion.
Pam Chinnis, president of the Episcopal Triennial Meeting of the Women of the Church says, " For the average layperson, this book is invaluable in putting in context the events of the past year and those which will most surely occur between now and September 1976. For everyone it provides an invaluable wealth of resource material for an in-depth study of the subject. "
Contributors include: Dr. Marianne Micks, the Rt. Rev. Daniel Corrigan, the Rt. Rev. Stanley Atkins, the Rt. Rev. Ned Cole, the Rev. Suzanne Hiatt, Hugh McCullum and the Rev. Richard Anderson. Contributors to the ecumenical chapter are: Dr. James Smylie, the Rev. George Tavard, the Rev. Kerstin Berglund and the Rev. John Meyendorff.
The Rev. Canon Michael P. Hamilton works as liaison to extend the cathedral's ministry by strengthening the cooperation between the Washington Cathedral and other institutions of the church. He conducts a series of yearly conferences both for local Washington residents and laity and clergy throughout the nation. These conferences concern theological and secular matters on the frontiers of human scholarship and experience.
Nancy S. Montgomery is communications director of Washington Cathedral and editor of THE CATHEDRAL AGE, the cathedral's quarterly publication. She has also edited several editions of the Guide to Washington Cathedral.
* The General Convention of the Episcopal Church meets September 11-23, 1976, in Minneapolis/St. Paul.