Sublime

In any case, the husband’s special role as the leader of his wife cannot be explained away in Ephesians 5:22–33.

Second, this observation raises immediately the issue of the parallelism between the nineteenth-century debate on slavery and the current debate on gender roles.

intergenerational Christian formation—the

No matter what women might achieve in the world, the fundamental message of the sacred texts of the world’s largest religious grouping, which for 2,000 years have supplied the foundational beliefs of our Western culture, is that men should not trust women, and that women should trust neither themselves nor each other.

Religious counselor

Why did the myth enacted by the Mysteries have such a profound effect?

Similarly, not even a hint is given of Chloe’s functioning as a leader in Corinth.

‘There’s been a great talk about the pagan persecutions; but the Christians persecuted as well, and the old gods were worshipped in caves and woods as well as the new. And none the worse for that! It was in caves and woods and streams, in earth and air and water, they dwelt. And there – and here, too, in spite of all your Christian lustrations – a

New Testament scholar John Dominic Crossan: “Implicit in the title ‘woman’ is that her full destiny is to be the ‘woman’ of Genesis 3:15.”27