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 1 Text|          state that the Orthodox Church is against women's priesthood,
 2 Text|  Orthodox mind. For the Orthodox Church has never faced this question;
 3 Text|       the very experience of the Church, and for the discussion
 4 Text|      Fall and Redemption, to the Church and the mystery of her life,
 5 Text|          into the twelve, if the Church for centuries did not include
 6 Text|        the very structure of the Church? How else, furthermore,
 7 Text|       applied as such within the Church is, to say the least, questionable? ~
 8 Text|       old "clerical" view of the Church and the double "reduction"
 9 Text| reduction on the one hand of the Church to a Òpower structure";
10 Text|         i.e., ordination, in the Church. ~But the Church simply
11 Text|          in the Church. ~But the Church simply cannot be reduced
12 Text|    shapes the entire life of the Church, in the reality of the Kingdom
13 Text|        ultimate reality that the Church is both gift and acceptance.
14 Text|    indeed the very "form" of the Church. This priesthood is Christ'
15 Text|        others. The priest in the Church is not "another" priest,
16 Text| institutional" priesthood in the Church has no "ontology" of its
17 Text|      Sacrifice the source of the Church's life and the "acquisition"
18 Text|      meaning of that word in the Church, as the contemplation and
19 Text|      people, between God and His Church is "essentially" revealed
20 Text|      terms, creation itself, the Church herself, man and the world
21 Text|       her joy and communion, the Church identifies herself with