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Field	Value

Title	The polity debate regarding gay and lesbian ordination and/or installation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Creator	Vermaak, Roch F.

Subject	Church history and polity ‘definitive guidance’; gay/lesbian ordination; General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission; The Book of Confessions; the Book of Order
Description	The paper summarises the formation process of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s (PC(USA)) polity regarding the ordination and/or installation of partnered gays and lesbians as officers, i.e. deacons, elders and ministers of the Word and Sacrament, in light of General Assemblies’ decisions and General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commissions’ ecclesiastical rulings since the 1970's.

Publisher	AOSIS

Contributor	—
Date	2010-09-23

Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format	text/html text/xml application/pdf
Identifier	10.4102/ve.v31i1.51

Source	Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 31, No 1 (2010); 10 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982

Language	eng

Relation	The following web links (URLs) may trigger a file download or direct you to an alternative webpage to gain access to a publication file format of the published article: https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/51/441 https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/51/442 https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/51/392

Coverage	— 1970-2009 —
Rights	Copyright (c) 2010 Roch F. Vermaak https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0