[Sca-cooks] a Lenten question-

[Terry Decker]

Curiously, there is some current scholarly work based on document evaluation 
of Paul's writings that suggests that most if not all of Paul's condemnation 
of women was written by other parties and that Paul was radical in his ideas 
on equality and the structure of Christian of Christian society.  There is 
evidence that there was a social equality between men and women in the early 
Christian Church which was forced into the modern patriarchal form to make 
the religion more palatable to Roman society.

There are a couple of books, one dealing with Jesus and the more recent with 
Paul that present the evidence and the arguments.  I don't recall the author 
or titles offhand, because it is not a specific interest of mine.

Bear

> Many would have it that St. Paul is ultimately responsible for condemning 
> women, and that the others just put the stamp on it. And with Origen you 
> forgive a lot, because he had the World's Greatest Cognomen, barring none, 
> forever and ever, amen ;-).
>
> Adamantius