Women in Christianity.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Women in Earliest Christianity -- Women's history too -- Jesus - friend of women -- Women in the Jewish-Christian Jesus movement -- No patriarchal hierarchy -- Provisional structures -- Women as apostles and prophets? -- 2. Women in the Early Church -- Women apostles and prophets in Paul -- Conflicts over the status of women -- Gnosticism: an opportunity for women -- Women: the losers in history -- To be rediscovered: women martyrs, prophets, teachers -- Alternative forms of life for women -- The shadow sides -- Were women emancipated through Christianity? -- Tradition as an argument today -- 3. Women in the Church of the Middle Ages -- Augustine: original sin corrupts sexuality -- Rigorism in sexual morality -- An inter-religious problem -- A church of celibate men and the prohibition of marriage -- Thomas: women - somewhat defective -- Women in the family, politics and business -- Repression of women in the church -- Mysticism under suspicion -- Veneration of Mary on the increase -- An ecumenical image of Mary? -- 4. Women at the Time of the Reformation -- Luther's fundamental impulse for reform -- The changed situation of women -- Fellowship of men and women -- The structure of society - still patriarchal -- Women in Calvinism and Anglicanism -- Emancipation in the 'sects'? -- Women as witches -- Who was to blame for the witch-craze? -- Why the witch-craze? -- 5. Women in Modernity and Postmodernity -- The philosophical revolution and women -- The political revolution and women -- The industrial revolution and women -- Have the churches hindered or encouraged the emancipation of women? -- The situation in modern Catholicism -- The situation in modern Protestantism -- The feminist movement -- Questions to the churches -- A fellowship of brothers and sisters, free and equal -- Specific demands.

Conclusion -- Notes.

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