Wolfhart Pannenberg is Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus in the University of Munich.

In compiling an excellent bibliography of sources on the female diaconate, Wijngaards has done a fine service to the non-European reader. (...) While this book is replete with interesting and valuable citations and references for the scholarm it continues the popular style of Wijngaards's The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church (2001), and is more suitable for the general reader. Phyllis Zagano, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, December 2004.‘This book is a “must” for all serious students of contemporary theology.’Expository Times‘A model of how doctrine should be done.’Theology‘A masterpiece from one of the seminal minds of our era… One of the finest books written in theology in our time.’Methodist Recorder

Wolfhart Pannenberg is Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus in the University of Munich.

In compiling an excellent bibliography of sources on the female diaconate, Wijngaards has done a fine service to the non-European reader. (...) While this book is replete with interesting and valuable citations and references for the scholarm it continues the popular style of Wijngaards's The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church (2001), and is more suitable for the general reader. Phyllis Zagano, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, December 2004.‘This book is a “must” for all serious students of contemporary theology.’Expository Times‘A model of how doctrine should be done.’Theology‘A masterpiece from one of the seminal minds of our era… One of the finest books written in theology in our time.’Methodist Recorder

Wolfhart Pannenberg is Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus in the University of Munich.

In compiling an excellent bibliography of sources on the female diaconate, Wijngaards has done a fine service to the non-European reader. (...) While this book is replete with interesting and valuable citations and references for the scholarm it continues the popular style of Wijngaards's The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church (2001), and is more suitable for the general reader. Phyllis Zagano, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, December 2004.‘This book is a “must” for all serious students of contemporary theology.’Expository Times‘A model of how doctrine should be done.’Theology‘A masterpiece from one of the seminal minds of our era… One of the finest books written in theology in our time.’Methodist Recorder