Calling or co-optation: revisioning ministry in the United Church of Canada

Kathleen Marie Heuer

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Calling or co-optation: revisioning ministry in the United Church of Canada

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Kathleen Marie Heuer. Calling Or Co-optation: Revisioning Ministry In the United Church of Canada. St. Stephen's College University of Alberta. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/723f8834-0784-43c1-89aa-07abeb00cba4?locale=es.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

K. M. Heuer. Calling or co-optation: revisioning ministry in the United Church of Canada. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/723f8834-0784-43c1-89aa-07abeb00cba4?locale=es

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Kathleen Marie Heuer. Calling Or Co-Optation: Revisioning Ministry In the United Church of Canada. St. Stephen's College University of Alberta. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/723f8834-0784-43c1-89aa-07abeb00cba4?locale=es.

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Kathleen Marie Heuer

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This project/dissertation explores ministry in the United Church of Canada from the perspective of a feminist ecclesiology. Using a feminist approach to qualitative methodology, nine diaconal ministers were interviewed to examine their reasons for choosing ordination. Personal and systemic reasons emerged, including sense of calling, need for education and employment security, career development, contextual influences and church policies. Sexism and the marginalization of diaconal ministers were factors. This dissertation analyses the tensions between hierarchical privilege and feminist perspective, and proposes recommendations for the revision of ministry leadership, particularly the re-vitalization of diaconal ministry as oriented towards the world.

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