Women in Christianity
- New York Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. 2001
- 129p
includes index and biblioraphy
Women in Earliest Christianity 1 Women`s history too 1 Jesus - friend of women 2 Women in the Jewish-Christian Jesus movement 4 No patriarchal hierarchy 5 Provisional structures 6 Women as apostles and prophets? 7 Women in the Early Church 9 Women apostles and prophets in Paul 9 Conflicts over the status of women 12 Gnosticism: an opportunity for women 13 Women: the losers in history 15 To be rediscovered: women martyrs, prophets,teachers 19 Alternative forms of life for women 21 The shadow sides 22 Were women emancipated through Christianity? 23 Tradition as an argument today 25 Women in the Church of the Middle Ages 29 Augustine: original sin corrupts sexuality 29 Rigorism in sexual morality 31 An inter-religious problem 33 A church of celibate men and the prohibition of marriage 34 Thomas: women - somewhat defective 38 Women in the family, politics and business 41 Repression of women in the church 46 Mysticism under suspicion 50 Veneration of Mary on the increase 52 An ecumenical image of Mary? 56 4. Women at the Time of the Reformation 61 Luther`s fundamental impulse for reform 61 The changed situation of women 62 Fellowship of men and women 64 The structure of society - still patriarchal 65 Women in Calvinism and Anglicanism 66 Emancipation in the `sects`? 69 Women as witches 70 Who was to blame for the witch-craze? 72 Why the witch-craze? 75 5. Women in Modernity and Postmodernity 79 The philosophical revolution and women 80 The political revolution and women 82 The industrial revolution and women 83 Have the churches hindered or encouraged the emancipation of women? 85 The situation in modern Catholicism 87 The situation in modern Protestantism 89 The feminist movement 93 Questions to the churches 95 A fellowship of brothers and sisters, free and equal 97 Specific demands 98