Women in Christianity

by Kung, Hans

• ISBN13: 9780826456861
• ISBN10: 0826456863
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Author Biography

Hans Kung is Emeritus Professor at the University of Tubingen.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Women in Earliest Christianity	1	(8)
Women's history too	1	(1)
Jesus - friend of women	2	(2)
Women in the Jewish-Christian Jesus movement	4	(1)
No patriarchal hierarchy	5	(1)
Provisional structures	6	(1)
Women as apostles and prophets?	7	(2)
Women in the Early Church	9	(20)
Women apostles and prophets in Paul	9	(3)
Conflicts over the status of women	12	(1)
Gnosticism: an opportunity for women	13	(2)
Women: the losers in history	15	(4)
To be rediscovered: women martyrs, prophets, teachers	19	(2)
Alternative forms of life for women	21	(1)
The shadow sides	22	(1)
Were women emancipated through Christianity?	23	(2)
Tradition as an argument today	25	(4)
Women in the Church of the Middle Ages	29	(32)
Augustine: original sin corrupts sexuality	29	(2)
Rigorism in sexual morality	31	(2)
An inter-religious problem	33	(1)
A church of celibate men and the prohibition of marriage	34	(4)
Thomas: women - somewhat defective	38	(3)
Women in the family, politics and business	41	(5)
Repression of women in the church	46	(4)
Mysticism under suspicion	50	(2)
Veneration of Mary on the increase	52	(4)
An ecumenical image of Mary?	56	(5)
Women at the Time of the Reformation	61	(18)
Luther's fundamental impulse for reform	61	(1)
The changed situation of women	62	(2)
Fellowship of men and women	64	(1)
The structure of society-still patriarchal	65	(1)
Women in Calvinism and Anglicanism	66	(3)
Emancipation in the `sects'?	69	(1)
Women as witches	70	(2)
Who was to blame for the witch-craze?	72	(3)
Why the witch-craze?	75	(4)
Women in Modernity and Postmodernity	79	(26)
The philosophical revolution and women	80	(2)
The political revolution and women	82	(1)
The industrial revolution and women	83	(2)
Have the churches hindered or encouraged the emancipation of women?	85	(2)
The situation in modern Catholicism	87	(2)
The situation in modern Protestantism	89	(4)
The feminist movement	93	(2)
Questions to the churches	95	(2)
A fellowship of brothers and sisters, free and equal	97	(1)
Specific demands	98	(4)
Conclusion	102	(3)
Notes	105