| Description |
268 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: Les diaconesses : essai historique. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Were there deaconesses in the church of the first two centuries? -- Deaconesses in the church in the East of the Roman Empire (third to seventh centuries) -- The Apostolic constitutions : meeting place of diverse traditions -- There were no deaconesses in Egypt or Ethiopia -- Deaconesses in the other churches of the Greek-speaking and Eastern regions of the Roman Empire (end of fourth to sixth centuries) : I. In church teaching and legislation -- Deaconesses in the other churches of the Greek-speaking and Eastern regions of the Roman Empire (end of fourth to sixth centuries : II. In the life and practice of the Church -- The liturgy for the ordination of deaconesses -- The disappearance of deaconesses and the memory of them that remained -- There were no deaconesses in the Latin Church during the first five centuries -- The uncertainties and the various forms of the introduction of deaconesses into the West (sixth to eleventh centuries) -- The disappearance of deaconesses and the memory of them that remained in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Reappearance of deaconesses among women religious. |
| Subject |
Deaconesses -- History.
|
|
Deaconesses. |
|
History. |
| Added Author |
Whitehead, K. D., translator.
|
| Added Title |
Diaconesses. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86012722
|
| ISBN |
0898701147 paperback |
|
9780898701142 paperback |
|
