Why Me, Lord?: One Woman's Ordination to the Priesthood with Commentary and Complaint (Women and Gender in Religion)
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Betty Bone-Schiess (Author)
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The story of the ordination of the Reverend Betty Bone Schiess - one of the first women priests in the Episcopal church. Reverend Betty Bone Schiess' engagingly written memoir is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of religious study as well as to feminist study and to legal scholarship, particularly on equal rights issues. Schiess draws parallels throughout her work to earlier efforts of the suffragettes and abolitionists of Seneca Falls. 14 black and white illustrations
About the Author
Betty Bone Schiess was a chaplain at Syracuse and Cornell universities as well as the rector at Grace Episcopal Church in Mexico, New York, from 1984 to 1989.
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- Contributor: Betty Bone-Schiess
- Imprint: Syracuse University Press
- ISBN13: 9780815607441
- Number of Pages: 168
- Packaged Dimensions: 127x203x20mm
- Packaged Weight: 284
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Release Date: 2003-05-30
- Series: Women and Gender in Religion
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Betty Bone Schiess was a chaplain at Syracuse and Cornell universities as well as the rector at Grace Episcopal Church in Mexico, New York, from 1984 to 1989.
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