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Women and Self-Sacrifice in the Christian Church: A Cultural History from the First to the Nineteenth Century

Women and Self-Sacrifice in the Christian Church: A Cultural History from the First to the Nineteenth Century

Magli, Ida

Paperback

General ChristianityWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0786493607
ISBN13: 9780786493609
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Feb 10 2014
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

By speaking and teaching to women, Jesus Christ violated the religious codes of his time and people. Later, by emphasizing virginity and martyrdom, Christianity gave women their first viable option to marriage. Furthermore, in their relationship with God, women also found an opportunity for significant creative activity. Even so, church leaders succeeded in keeping women in the role of victim, a role to which Christianity added religious significance. Unresolved to this day is the problem of developing a truly feminist theology in a religion that depends upon the symbolism of sacrifice.

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