Women in the Clergy

... Women in the Clergy For a number of years the issue of women's role in the church has divided the Christian community. Their ascent through the ranks of the Anglican clergy has angered the more conservative Roman Catholic sect of the church. Feminists have also condemned the church's archaic sexist views, highlighting the fact that such policy would not be allowed in any other aspect of modern life. When feminist theology began in the 1960s, women began to complain about the church's male dominated language and sexist attitudes. They complained that God is always referred to as a man, and claimed this was wrong because they argued that the creator of everything must have been both male and female, and hence it is wrong to always refer to him as a he. But it has been hard for Christian feminists because sexism has been evident in church since its birth, and there

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