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"Next to the ordered way to God that is laid out by the institution of the church, the teaching authority of the office, and the scriptures administered by that office, there is an additional access to God that cannot be channeled but is, instead, experimental and tolerated at the margins of the institution. It is no coincidence that this margin was the place preferred by women, who were barred access to the centers of sacred power."

Dorothee Soelle,The Silent Cry