Talk:Feminism and the Movement for Women’s Ordination

Research note

Research date: 24 October 2026. Fell’s 1666 tract was inspected in the University of Pennsylvania transcription, including its biblical argument. LSE Women’s Library guides were inspected as descriptions of archival holdings and organizational connections, not represented as complete inspection of the underlying manuscript collections. Pam Darling’s signed 2018 participant history was inspected directly. The Anglican News Service account of Li Tim-Oi and the original DPS account of Philadelphia supplied identifiable pastoral and civil-rights arguments. The Danvers Statement was inspected on its sponsoring organization’s site as a representative critique, with its institutional limits stated.

Editorial note

The two LSE guides differ on the founding date of Royden’s later society, and one guide conflates the 1992 authorization with the first English women priests in 1994. The article avoids those errors and does not give the disputed society date. Darling’s historical account includes dates concerning deaconesses which require separate verification; those are not adopted. The draft is a documented selection of connections rather than an exhaustive causal history. It does not claim that Li Tim-Oi’s ordination was free of all feminist influence, only that the inspected account identifies a wartime pastoral crisis. No unrecorded private motive or demographic consequence is asserted.

Suggested categories

Suggestions only: Anglican history; Feminism; Ordination of women; Anglican theology.