Women in the Orthodox Church

• Widows

• Teva Regule: Interview with Bishop Kallistos Ware, June 11, 1997. Emphasis on issues pertaining to women's role in the Church. --- St. Nina Quarterly

• Élisabeth Behr-Sigel: The Ministry of Women in the Church, (1987). Redondo Beach: Oakwood, 1990.
• Élisabeth Behr-Sigel: Women in the Orthodox Church, (1999?). From St. Nina Quarterly (2/2). --- St. Nina Quarterly
• Carolyn DeArmond Blevins: Women in Christian History -- A Bibliography, (1995). Mercer University, 1995.
• Patricia Ranft: A Woman's Way -- The Forgotten History of Women Spiritual Directors, (2000). New York: Palgrave, 2000. Focus on Western church, but includes discussion of early church in East.
• Patricia Ranft: Women and Spiritual Equality in Christian Tradition, (1998). New York: St. Martin's, 1998.
• George H. Tavard: Woman in Christian Tradition, (1973). Notre Dame (USA), 1973.

• The question of woman priests:
  • Fr. Alexander Schmemann: Women and the Priesthood, (1982). A very brief comment, expressing the view that the controversy in heterodox denominations over ordination of women is largely the result of importing a worldly mentality into the church and assuming that exclusion from the clergy means exclusion from power. --- Schmemann.Org

• "Womanish" not an insult to Christians: St. Jerome: Against Vigilantius, xii;