Mulheres e ordenação (na IECLB) : novos modelos e outras possibilidades na vivência cotidiana do ministério ordenado

Abstract

Women and the ordination in the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (ECLCB) are new models and also other possibilities in daily existence of the ordination ministry. Women s presence in the Church is old. However, this new and important step, women s ordination in ECLCB, is recent. Shuffling the trunk showed us that the presence of a masculine normative model made women face the challenge of daring and trying new models, living other possibilities, treading new roads, until they could find their own way of living the ministry. The discourse hermeneutic and the feminist hermeneutic are experienced when we dare to interpret some discourses of ordained women. And still a curious glance wants to reveal a little of the existent relics on daily life, like speeches and also practices, as well as to point challenges which will appear for us in order to think on continuity. This research has as objective to notice and to make visible some of the challenges women find in daily life of ordination ministry, but it also wants to point possibilities, showing positive signs, daily experiences which can be growth and accomplishment signs for women as well as for communities and for Churches in general, signs which women s presence brings in that ministry.