Sievietes 2.-11.gs.AD

27. Feb, 2010

Quotations from the works of the Church Fathers on women’s ministry in the church and on the understanding of woman (anthropology)

St. Irenaeus of Lyon, Asia Minor, Gaul (c. 140–203)

AGAINST HERESIES 5,21 FRAGMENT 14 FRAGMENT 32 FRAGMENT 55Download

Clement of Alexandria (150–215)

MISCELLANIES (STROMATEIS) 3,6,53

Tertullian (c. 155–245)

ON THE VEILING OF VIRGINS (DE VIRGINIBUS VELANDIS) 9, 10
ON THE APPAREL OF WOMEN (LIBER I DE HABITU MULIEBRI) 1
CHAPTER. ON THE CROWN
PRESCRIPTION AGAINST HERETICS (DE PRAESCRIPTIONE HAERETICORUM) 41,1Download

Pseudo-Ignatius (late 4th century)

EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS 15, EPISTLE TO THE ANTIOCHENES 8 and 12Download

St. John Chrysostom (Golden-Mouthed), Antioch in Syria, Constantinople (c. 344–407)

ON THE PRIESTHOOD 2,1–2
HOMILY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 14:34-35
HOMILY ON THE 1ST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY 2:11–15
HOMILY ON THE 1ST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY 3:8–11Download

Jerome, (347–419)

AGAINST HELVIDIUS (ADVERSUS HELVIDIUM) 21
EPISTLE TO LUCINIUS (EPISTOLA LXXI AD LUCINIUM) 3
AGAINST JOVINIAN (ADVERSUS JOVINIANUM) 1Download

Augustine, (354–430)

ON THE GOOD OF MARRIAGE (DE BONOCONIUGALIS) 1
QUESTIONS ON THE HEPTATEUCH (QUAESTIONES IN HEPTATEUCHUM) 1,153
ON MARRIAGE AND CONCUPISCENCE (DE NUPTIIS ET CONCUPISCIENTIA) 1,9,10
ON CONTINENCE (DE CONTINENTIA) 1
ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (DE SERMONE DOMINI IN MONTE) 1,15,41-42
TRACTATE ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN (IN JOHANNES EVANGELIUM TRACTATUS) 2,14Download

Studies of the works of the Church Fathers on the understanding and ministry of women

THE IMAGE OF THE VIRGIN MARY IN FEMINIST THEOLOGY, Anita Filipsone, Dr. theol., and Inta Jakāne, Mag. theol.Download
THE CHURCH FATHERS AND THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD WOMEN IN THE CHURCH, Una Strode, Mag. theol.Download

Mothers of the Church

DESERT MOTHERS

Amma SYNCLETICA, Amma SARAH, Amma MELANIA

MARTYRS

PERPETUA, FELICITY, BLANDINA (AD 177), ST. SOPHIA THE MARTYR (AD 137), ST. SABINA (AD 124)

THEOLOGIANS AND LEADERS

MACRINA the Younger (AD 328–380), founder of women’s communities in the Eastern Church, sister of Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa

OLYMPIA (AD 366–408), deaconess in Constantinople, founder of a convent for women

MARCELLA, (AD 325–410), teacher and theologian in Rome, founder and leader of a house church for women, recognized by Jerome

PAULA, (AD 347–404), came from MARCELLA’s church in Rome, assisted Jerome in translating the Bible into Latin

THEODORA I, (AD 500–548), wife of the Christian emperor Justinian; as empress she was also head of the Church and shared the authority to appoint Church leaders. In the frescoes of the Basilica of St. Praxedes in Rome, “Theodora Episcopa” is depicted — possibly her.

HILDA, (AD 614–690), founder and leader of a double monastery (for men and women in parallel) in Yorkshire, a renowned center of theological and literary education

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, (AD 1098–1179), abbess in Germany, mystic, theologian

THE TRADITION OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Marika Zelča-Čerāne, MBA, MA 

THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES Constitutiones Apostolorum
Διαταγαὶ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων διὰ Κλήμεντος AD 381Download

STATUTA ECCLESIAE ANTIQUA AD 476-485 Download

THE DECREE OF GRATIAN
Codex Gratiani, Decretum Gratiani AD 1140 Download