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On Palm Sunday 1960, three women knelt in front of an altar to be ordained as the first female priests in the Church of Sweden. During the 1960s, 54 women were admitted into the priesthood. This book tells the story of these pioneers through an analysis of their own personal narratives.
Viewed through the dual analytical lens of the theological concept of vocation and the social theorist Axel Honneth’s concept of recognition, these narratives provide a rich and complex picture of a groundbreaking reform that complements and challenges established historical narratives and contributes to the understanding of similar processes of change in other churches.
1 Writing the history of a reform: narratives of vocation and recognition
2 Narratives of vocation and recognition: theory and method
3 The path to vocation: the historical context
4 The theology of vocation: the theological context
5 The path to recognition: training and ordination
6 Recognition of the vocation
7 The struggle for recognition
8 Ecumenical entanglements
9 Links and parallels
Summary: revisiting the historical narrative of a reform