Vai Sieviešu Ordinācija Novedīs Pie Geju Laulībām? Netradicionāla Ordinācija Un Netradicionāla Laulība: Will women’s ordination lead to gay marriage? Unconventional ordination and unconventional marriage.
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, together with other conservative Christian churches and theologians, asserts that the ordination of women will inevitably and logically lead to embracing same-sex marriage by the church. While the objections to the ordination of women are based on arguments fro...
| Published in: | Cel̜š |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Latvian |
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LU Akadēmiskais apgāds
2021
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Cel̜š
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| Further subjects: | B
Man-woman relationships
B Evangelical Churches B LATVIA B Lutheran Church B Ordination B Same-sex marriage B Theologians |
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| Summary: | Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, together with other conservative Christian churches and theologians, asserts that the ordination of women will inevitably and logically lead to embracing same-sex marriage by the church. While the objections to the ordination of women are based on arguments from both scripture and tradition, my paper focuses exclusively on the aspect of tradition, addressing its beginnings, sources, claims to continuity, as well as the correlation of the non-ordination of women to same-sex marriage. Since the statement that the ordination of women will result in acceptance of same-sex marriage pertains both to the issue of traditional or male-only ordination and the issue of traditional or the opposite-sex-only marriage, my paper has two parts: the first part questions the concept of "traditional" ordination that excludes women because of their gender, and the second part deals with the idea of "traditional" marriage and the church’s opposition to same-sex marriage as a deviation from tradition. Common to both traditions of exclusion is their adherence to the ancient concept of a hierarchical understanding of the relation between men and women, rooted in preindustrial socioeconomic structures and located in assumptions of ontological inferiority of some men and all women. Because the view of ontological inferiority is no longer relevant today and has been abandoned by the church, the argument that the church can deny ordination to women based on the apostolic tradition is questionable. The tradition of ordination has been neither continuous nor consistent, therefore using the argument from tradition to justify non-ordination of women and also to condemn same-sex marriage is problematic and contrary to the new theological understanding of the equality of men and women within the diversity of the church as the one body of Christ. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cel̜š
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22364/cl.72.10 |