TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kateusz,Ally
TI  - Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership 
SN  - 9783030111106
U1  - D40 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Theology
KW  - Feminist theology
KW  - Bible-Theology
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Feminist Theology
KW  - Biblical Studies
N1  - 1. Background and Perspective on Mary -- 2. More Collyridian Déjà vu -- 3. Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers -- 4. Mary, High Priest and Bishop -- 5. Mother and Son, Paired -- 6. The Life of the Virgin and Its Antecedents -- 7. Women and Men at the Last Supper: Reception -- 8. Modes of Silencing; Open Access
N2  - This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders-women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church depict women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy inside two of the most important churches in Christendom-Old Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz's research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy
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