What the Christian church needs is some priestesses, says the Rev. Cyril C. Richardson, professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary. In the current issue of Christianity & Crisis, Episcopalian Richardson argues that through priestesses "the motherhood of the church can be given unique expression."
The old theological argument against such a thing, says Richardson, is "that women are incapable of Holy Order because they are in a state of subjection by nature. According to Aquinas, their subjection to men is due to the fact that 'in man the discretion of reason predominates.' " But Richardson reasons that a Christian virtue...
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