Gender prejudice and discrimination Flashcards
What is gender prejudice
Belief one gender is superior to another
What is discrimination
Treating people less favorably because of their gender, colour, sexuality, age or class
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There is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus - shows god has reference
Examples where Jesus shows he actively combatted prejudice and discrimination by treating all with respect
Samaritan women at the well
Woman caught in adultery
Greek woman
What are divergent views
Some churches don’t ordain women
Jesus is male and didn’t have female disciples
St Paul teaches women should remain silent in church and have a lesser role
others do ordain women
believe women should have equal roles
Jesus treated women equally and argue he choose 12 men because of the culture at the time
evidence that there were women priests in the early church
what is the catholic view
against gender inequality Vatican 11 gave women greater equality in church
Jesus was and so priest must be
men have always been successors of the apostles