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The Calling: The Story of a Pioneering Woman Priest

	The Calling: The Story of a Pioneering Woman Priest
	ISBN: 9781875053797
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	*Nancy Charton Edited by Dr W H Meyer* The issue of women’s ordination still occasionally makes the news. The controversy over women Bishops in the 2008 Church of England synod is a case in point. Within the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches the struggle continues despite growing evidence of the full ordination of women to the diaconate during the first four centuries of Christian history. Yet it is in personal histories such as this one that the true nature of women’s struggle with the Church to claim their full humanity becomes apparent. This is also a quintessentially South African story of a woman struggling against the multi-layered obstacles put in her way; sexual abuse, class prejudice, cultural chauvinism patriarchy and Apartheid have all played their part in trying to keep Nancy Charton from achieving her destiny, but like a rock, the mbokodo of the slogan, she has been weathered but not broken and emerged fully into her calling as a Priest and Cannon of the Anglican Church in South Africa. This book charts Nancy’s life from the moment of the calling by God in the garden of a miner’s cottage on the Witwatersrand, through her painful growing years when she lost her faith, to her re-emergence into faith with a mission as a community activist, campaigner against forced removals, crusading academic and finally as a pioneering advocate of full ordination for women in the Anglican Church Reviews Click here to read Janet Trisk review for Grace and Truth April 2010 Click here to read Korwa G. Adar, United States International University, Nairobi review
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Customer Reviews: Maggy Clarke (Sunday, 16 August 2009) Rating: This book makes fascinating reading, and is hard to put down. Nancy Charton has had a long and varied life, and has gone through many experiences including abuse as a child, mental illness and a period of complete atheism. rnShe has had three careers, as wife and mother, a lecturer (later Professor) in the Politics Department at Rhodes, and finally at a stage when most people think it's time to retire, as a full-time Anglican deacon and then priest, remembered with great affection by the congregation of St Bartholomew's in Grahamstown.rnShe is well known for her pioneering stand in rnfavour of the ordination of women, rewarded in September 1992 when in Grahamstown Cathedral she was among the first three women to be ordained priest in the Anglican Church in Southern Africa. But she did not only take rna stand when her own interests were concerned. As an academic and as a priest she stood for what she saw as right against the authorities of the day, and worked alongside the marginalised, including the unfortunate rnsubjects of "forced removals", those with mental illness, and inmates of Waainek Prison.rnrnHer walk has not been easy, but it was always interesting, and she tells her story with a frank directness that her friends will recognise as the rnauthentic Nancy. A rivetting and inspiring read!

The Calling: The Story of a Pioneering Woman Priest

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