Gender roles - individual Flashcards
Catherine Mackinnon (feminist)?
‘sexuality must be re-imagined and remade before moral sexual relationships are possible.’
Dag Ølstein Endsjø?
Evangelical Christians ‘lived according to the traditional view that female virginity was more important than male virginity.’
Pope John Paul II?
Pope John Paul II?
(2 separate points)
‘In calling only men as his apostles, Christ acted in a completely free…manner. In doing so he excessed the same freedom with which, in all his behaviour, he emphasised the dignity and vocation of women.’
Virgin Mary never ordained to be a priest - ‘the non-admission of women to priestly ordination cannot mean that women are of lesser dignity.’
Testimony of equality?
after the fall men and women not equal however because Christ saved all of mankind by dying on the cross, just as before the fall, men and women once again are equal - ‘And as man and woman are restored again…they have dominion again in righteousness and holiness.’
Samuel Johnson?
‘a woman’s preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well’
Alan Padget - on woman as ‘helper’?
Thought in Genesis, the woman is described as the ‘helper’ this does not mean that she is inferior to the man - God is also described as a helper in the Bible - ‘God is my helper’
Alan Padget - Paul’s description of man as the ‘head of his wife’?
This is in the ‘context of mutual submission’ - ‘calling husbands to self-giving sacrifice for their wives’ - in doing so husbands submit to their wives
Alan Padget - female and male priests?
‘Women and men are both priests in christ’
Alan Padget - 1 Timothy 2:11 - how do many Bible scholars interpret this?
‘A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.’
this was written to a particular Church concerning women who were teaching the ideas of false teachers and so had fallen into sin - ‘The emphasis is on silence for these women-not for all women’
Martin Luther king?
Black American Baptist minister - argued all people created by God = equal and ‘The time is always right to do what is right’
Christian Aid?
respect and defend rights and dignity of all - work challenging gender based discrimination in South Asia
transgender human rights activists in Central America
Hannah Mudge?
Challenges double standards in Church through the Christian Feminist Network - focus on issues such as women bishops, women in leadership + role of women in Church and family
Nantondo Hadebe?
gender equality = completely acceptable when we seek to enforce this in workplace and politics, ‘yet when we seek to do the same in Church, there is resistance.’
Leonard Swindler?
‘Jesus was a feminist’
John Locke?
‘In races of mankind and families of the world, there remains not to one above another.’ - despite differences, no one is above anyone else
