"Wome Ao Hoty _Onoeas.'—-By Charles E. Raven, un Canon woof and Chay the ing. "London: Hodder & Stoughe tom" Price, 28. Gl. net.
Canon Raven, with characteristic courage ® and ' independence thought, has written a book on the admission of women to Holy Orders. He points out the great significance the women's movement, which he calls "the noblest and most Christian achievement of the past century." He then shows that the Church has failed to recognize this achievement fully, and that in the charch alone are women assumed to be "by fact of sex inferior to men and incapable of service except under terms of strict subservience."
Canon Raven gives examples of women's spi the falseness of this assumption and how greatly the Church needs those gifts which women could bring. "In an interesting chapter he examines the principal objections. raised to the ministry of women, from the strange question clergyman, who thought that God was masculine and could not be represented by a woman, to the arguments from authority and tradition, The book gives a clear survey of the subject of which at present little is generally known. It is remarkable for its vigour and sincerity and is likely to arouse much thought and discussion,
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