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The Twelve Theses

Constitution of MOW

1983 was the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth. It was also the year the Movement for the Ordination was founded in Sydney. Three women wanted to commemorate Luther and "imitate his prophetic action" by calling for reform of the male hierarchy in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Posting the theses on the cathedral door was regarded as an "act of witness" by MOW as a way of drawing attention to the issue of the ordination of women during Synods in Sydney. Monica Furlong, the moderator of the English MOW, visited MOW in Australia in 1984 saying "It seemed to me that it was the adamant, wounding kind of opposition within the Sydney diocese that got MOW started".

Much could be said about the Debate between The Australian Church record and MOW. It must first be said that it was not a public one. No one in svdney has yet taken up that challenge. This was t~e closest, a private debat~ .behind clo~ed door~which was subsequently transposed to a written oneby The Church Record. SG in https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.35218478 "Moreover the Editor of A.C.R.worked extremely hard to enthuse his readers with his own opinions of it via strong and often mis-leading editorials....The major obstacle to women's ordination in Sydney, the doc-trine of headship was barely touched on.

The poster was inaccurately reproduced in The Movement for the Ordination of Women newsletter, Balaam's Ass in 1995.