Women's Role In The Episcopal Church

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In the world today, there are many new roles that women are now occupying. It started with World War II. People were needed to fill the roles that men had left to enlist in the army. This began the change in society’s view of women because they proved that they could do a man’s job. An important example would be Rosie the Riveter posters. The inclusion of women during World War II began the women’s fight to be equal with men in job opportunities and more. The movement for women’s rights changed the views of society of women. “It’s focus has been to make the social, political and economic status of women to be equal to men’s status (“Women’s Right Movement,” 2014).” The good thing about this is that it sought to make women and men have …show more content…

In apply the principles and axioms to the history of this church, it was a bit challenging as some of them didn't seem to completely fit into the situation described by the Church in their history of how the church has changed in the modern times. Also, their history was brief on their official website, which made it difficult to apply these axioms and principles completely. However, some of them seemed to describe the history of the church in a way that made it easy to understand why the church was the way that it pertained to women in their church doctrine of the …show more content…

This is not the case in other churches, such as the Catholic church. The English Episcopal Church in the past valued much of the traditional framework of medieval Catholicism in church government, liturgy, and customs,while it also has held the fundamentals of Reformation faith (“Spread of the Church,” 1999). However, it differs from the Catholic church today by allowing women to be priests. In the article by Bill Tammeus, he quotes “indeed, it’s the even more hierarchical structures of the Catholic church that causes Creek to wonder whether Catholics will ever allow women priests; it has such a different polity from ours, she said, that it’s hard to imagine how it could (Tammeus, 2014). He concludes his article by writing, “For now, it’s likely that the closest thing the world will have to female Catholic priest are women Episcopal priest and they’re busy celebrating the 40th anniversary of a crucial event that helped get them and their church to this point (Tammeus, 2014).” The principle of evolution can be applied to this because the rate at which social units differentiate from another is one, a direct function of their isolation and two, an inverse function of their size. The Catholic Church is unwilling to change their views on women’s roles in ministry unlike the Episcopal Church. In my opinion, it is because they are isolated from society in keeping up with their doctrine. However, I admit that I can be

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