Clerical Celibacy: The Heritage

258 Book Reviews / Ecclesiology 5 (2009) 246–269 William E. Phipps, Clerical Celibacy: Th e Heritage (New York and London: Continuum, 2004), x + 272 pp. $27.95. ISBN 0-8264-1617-9 (pbk). Th is is an author who certainly has the courage to display and reveal his posi- tion openly, from the very outset, and he continues to maintain it throughout the book, for the most part quoting only those who agree with him. Unlike much of the scholarly world, and indeed most of the ecumenical world, where one