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Based on four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, breaking custom to involve them in his work. Renowned scholar & liberal Catholic Leonard Swidler examines all gospel texts involving women, asserts that women were involved in the writing of two gospels, & outlines the importance of women in Jesus' ministry & the creation & development of the early church. He shows how Jesus was a feminist & why modern Christians should be too. I Yeshua & women: an overviewPrologue: Women in the ancient worldYeshua, a feminist, androgynous, an integrated humanWomen in Yeshua's languageWomen in Yeshua's teachingWomen in the life of YeshuaII The Gospels critically analyzedThe attitude toward women reflected by the Gospel writers & their sourcesConclusionsIII Early Christians' views of womenSummary analysis of the appendixes of the New Testament outside of the Gospels & early Church writingsAppendix I The New Testament other than the GospelsAppendix II Ambivalent elements in Christian traditionAppendix III Christian tradition's negative elements
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Jesus Was a Feminist: What the Gospels Reveal about His Revolutionary Perspective, Leonard J. Swidler
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- Title
- Jesus Was a Feminist: What the Gospels Reveal about His Revolutionary Perspective
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Leonard J. Swidler
- Publisher
- Sheed & Ward
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1580512186
- ISBN13
- 9781580512183
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- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Religious Topics, Religion, Women, Christian Themes, Creative Nonfiction, Theology, Feminism, Faith, Inspiration, Catholic Church, Ethics, Gender, Jesus Christ, New Testament
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- Based on four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, breaking custom to involve them in his work. Renowned scholar & liberal Catholic Leonard Swidler examines all gospel texts involving women, asserts that women were involved in the writing of two gospels, & outlines the importance of women in Jesus' ministry & the creation & development of the early church. He shows how Jesus was a feminist & why modern Christians should be too. I Yeshua & women: an overviewPrologue: Women in the ancient worldYeshua, a feminist, androgynous, an integrated humanWomen in Yeshua's languageWomen in Yeshua's teachingWomen in the life of YeshuaII The Gospels critically analyzedThe attitude toward women reflected by the Gospel writers & their sourcesConclusionsIII Early Christians' views of womenSummary analysis of the appendixes of the New Testament outside of the Gospels & early Church writingsAppendix I The New Testament other than the GospelsAppendix II Ambivalent elements in Christian traditionAppendix III Christian tradition's negative elements