Equality and Hierarchy between the Sexes and the Ordination of Women

Paul Ladouceur

There is constant tension between the principles of equality and hierarchy in the continuing debate within Orthodoxy concerning the ordination of women to clerical rank. Advocates of the ordination of women stress the ontological equality of men and women as a strong argument supporting the ordination of women to the diaconate and the priesthood, while opponents of women’s ordination argue that there exists a natural hierarchy between the sexes which bars women from ordination.

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